I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose
John F. KennedyThe supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
John F. KennedyThe ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. KennedyIt 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. KennedyAsk not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. KennedyTags: politics civic-duty civic-responsibility inaugural-address
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John F. KennedyTags: inspirational endurance ideas
What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.
John F. KennedyWashington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. KennedyThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]
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If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.
John F. KennedyTags: politics liberal democrats
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