John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."	Change, History, Law
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education."	Education, School, Teaching
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."	Ability, Peace, Violence
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."	Art, Freedom, Liberty
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"	Freedom, Liberty, Life
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."	Destiny, Fate, Men
"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats."	Hope, Knowledge, Opportunity
"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."	Age, Communism, Effort
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Age
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic."	Determination, Excellence, Honesty
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."	Time
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."	Freedom, Friends, Hope
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."	Destiny, Fate, Generosity
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."	Men, Military, Poetry
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."	America, Freedom, Liberty
"A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality."	Anger, Men
"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events."	Adversity, Desires, Difficulty
"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."	America, Desires, Life
"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."	History
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."	Anger, Character, Opportunity
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Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Change	Character
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Destiny	Determination	Difficulty
Doubt	Duty	Education
Effort	Excellence	Failure
Faith	Fate	Fear
Forgiveness	Freedom	Friends
Generosity	Goals	Greatness
Guns	Happiness	Help
History	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Imagination	Intelligence
Intentions	Joy	Justice
Knowledge	Laughter	Law
Leadership	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Loyalty
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Opportunity	Peace	Persistence
Poetry	Power	Pride
Reading	Religion	Responsibility
School	Sin	Success
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Violence	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
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