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- Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
- They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]
- President John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
- Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. -- John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962.
- John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
- If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961).
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
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