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John F. Kennedy

American President

Born: May 29, 1917

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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal. John F. Kennedy

Analysis Final Our Air Futures Small Mortal Most Cherish Link Same Common Children Breathe Planet Inhabit Basic

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy

Life You Settle Once Say Going Happens Second

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. John F. Kennedy

People Word Free Society Secrecy Secret Oaths Open Open Society Opposed Historically Very Repugnant Inherently Societies

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy

Education Truth Knowledge Advancement Goal

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Education Progress Mind Nation Resource Our Than Human Human Mind Fundamental

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. John F. Kennedy

Man Problem Problems Big Our Destiny Solved No Problem He Beyond Man-Made May Human Human Beings Wants Therefore Beings

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy

World Problems Men Possibly Dream Solved Horizons Never Obvious Limited Were Cannot Realities Who Cynics Whose Things Need

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. John F. Kennedy

Politics Government Promised Brother He Go Want Straight Bob Dad

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. John F. Kennedy

Today Service Man Tomorrow Young Military Living Takes Perform Likely Make Does Unemployed Young Man Who Include Military Service Rejects

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. John F. Kennedy

War Peace Secure Secure Peace Only Fact Unfortunate Preparing

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy

War Freedom Surrender Path Submission High Cost Shall Hazards Never Always American Paths Paid Full Choose Chosen Present

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. John F. Kennedy

Together Science Ocean Stars Sides Seek Both Both Sides Instead Invoke Terrors Eradicate Tap Encourage Commerce Disease Wonders Arts Us Depths Explore Let Us Conquer Deserts

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. John F. Kennedy

Care Minds Those Plumbing See Entrust Smaller Wage Than Modern Children Paid Paying Cynics Whom Harm

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. John F. Kennedy

Nation Own Holding Believe President Neither Religious Religious Views Him Affair Private Imposed His Condition Office Views Whose

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. John F. Kennedy

War Time Peace Generation Word Alike Bitter Torch Foe Has-Been Tempered Born New Disciplined New Generation Passed Go Been Friend American Place Century Forth Hard

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. John F. Kennedy

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