John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, and the Civil Rights Movement all took place...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
John F. Kennedy quotes about
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.
Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness.
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.