John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."	Books, Writing
"Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."	Miscellaneous
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."	Art, Creativity, Freedom
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." (To Canadian Parliament)"	Art, Friends, History
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."	Ability, Knowledge, Men
"A child miseducated is a child lost."	Education, School, Teaching
"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
"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way." (When asked how he would choose to die)"	Choice, Death, Guns
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."	Imagination, Men
"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
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now." (On steel industry executives who increased prices)"	Age, Lies, Men
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!"	Age, America, Friends
"A rising tide lifts all boats."	Sin
"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."	Ability
"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
"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."	Education, School, Teaching
"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."	Happiness, Joy, Men
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help made the world safe for diversity."	Help
"Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other."	Leadership, Learning
"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
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Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Courage
Creativity	Death	Desires
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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