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John F. Kennedy
American
President
Born:
May 29
,
1917
Freedom
Future
Life
Man
War
World
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
Defeat
Only
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Domestic
Domestic Policy
Us
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy
Time
Tool
Must
Couch
Use
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Technology
Man
World
Poverty
Power
Abolish
Mortal
His
Very
Hands
Human
Different
Holds
Forms
Human Life
Now
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy
Buy
Vote
Single
Pay
Following
More
Wire
Generous
Dear
Jack
Than
Going
Just
Landslide
Daddy
Necessary
Received
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Courage
Final
Dramatic
Triumph
Magnificent
Mixture
Tragedy
Than
Often
Less
Moment
Spectacle
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Today
Quality
Courage
Insist
Nation
Past
Has-Been
Brought
Fact
Leaders
Likely
Been
Forgotten
In Fact
Regard
In The Past
Which
Public
Public Life
Chosen
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.
John F. Kennedy
Me
Speak
Church
Party
Matters
President
Democratic
Also
Catholic
Does
Am
Candidate
Happens
Public
Who
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
Work
Men
Invent
Believe
Back
Those
Machines
Out
Put
New
Talent
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy
Fitness
Physical Fitness
Increasing
Softness
Our
Security
Physical
Menace
Lack
Growing
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
John F. Kennedy
Intelligence
Think
Out
Some
More
Hot
New
Days
Times
Get
York
Reports
New York
New York Times
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
Freedom
History
Welcome
World
Responsibility
Long
Few
Danger
Only
Long History
Generations
Hour
Been
Role
Maximum
Granted
Shrink
Defending
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
Strength
Difficulty
Ease
Risk
Potential
Directly
Investment
New
Economy
Obtaining
Ventures
Affects
Mobility
Tax
Experienced
Gains
Decisions
Capital
Capital Gains
Thereby
Growth
Flow
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy
Battle
Signs
White
Fighting
Has-Been
Colored
No-One
Been
His
Account
America
Dying
Race
Barred
Graveyards
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy
Hope
Me
Vote
Voting
Will
Franchise
Solely
Relevant
Religious
Throw
His
Affiliation
Account
American
Either
Against
Waste
Away
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Trust
Obligation
Faithful
Past
Owes
Despair
State
Those
Frankly
Gives
Inventory
Facts
He
Takes
His
Nor
Accounting
Prudent
Heir
Whom
Careful
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
Parenting
Become
Politicians
President
Sons
Mothers
Up
Want
Process
Them
Grow
Grow Up
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
Best
History
Generation
World
Power
Make
The History Of
Mankind
Last
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
John F. Kennedy
Better
Job
Big
Know
Sure
Than
Anyone
Who
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy
Man
I Am
Paris
Am
Accompanied
Who
Enjoyed
Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Freedom
Enemy
Will
We Cannot
All Nations
Systems
Adopt
Like
Expect
Jailer
Nations
Cannot
Conformity
Growth
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
Future
History
Try
Master
Past
Relentless
Rushing
Only
Hold
Aside
Swept
Fast
Present
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
John F. Kennedy
Man
Construction
Competition
Matter
Space
Moon
First
Become
National
Research
States
Immense
Involved
Soviet
Soviet Union
Expenditure
To The Moon
Should
Flight
Union
Preparing
United
Why
United States
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
You
Responsibility
Richard Nixon
White
White House
Nixon
Carry
Only
Between
House
Person
Realize
Richard
Standing
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F. Kennedy
Work
Good
Walk
Pay
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy
War
Alone
Great
Victory
Settle
Unconditional
Lead
Longer
Powers
Concern
Serve
Disputes
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
Saying
Me
Bad
Find
Most
Got
Were
Surprised
Been
Office
Just
Thing
Things
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