John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education."	Education, School, Teaching
"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."	History
"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."	Ability
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."	Age, Courage, Life
"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 freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."	Ability, Freedom, Liberty
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy."	Excellence, Greatness, Happiness
"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
"The human mind is our fundamental resource."	Men
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security."	Age, America, Books
"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." (Announcing blockade of Cuba)"	America, Choice, Freedom
"The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining."	Time
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin!"	Communism, Excellence, Freedom
"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."	Humor, Laughter, Men
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."	Ability, Peace, Violence
"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America."	Age, America, Honesty
"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."	Duty, Faith, History
"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
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."	Happiness, Joy
"Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."	Excellence, Fear, Men
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