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The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as

The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

John F. Kennedy
Lying, Matter, Propaganda

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Presidential, Poverty
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.13, Best Books on

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy
4th Of July, Responsibility, Past
John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Inspiring, Country
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

John F. Kennedy
Journey, Easy, Asks

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

John F. Kennedy
Jobs, Boys, Men
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy
Motivational, Change, Inspiring

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball
John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy
Christian, Peace, War
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Peace, Freedom
Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

John F. Kennedy
Wind, Splinters, Pieces

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

John F. Kennedy

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

John F. Kennedy
Optimism, Why Not, Asks

For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Powerful, Men
"Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi". September 30, 1962.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

John F. Kennedy

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

John F. Kennedy
Strength, Men, Life Being Hard

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Success, Courage

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy
Hope, Children, Presidential
United States Committee for UNICEF, July 25, 1963.

There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.

John F. Kennedy
Survival, President, Needs
Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

John F. Kennedy
Quality, Faults, Affirmation

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, People, Educated
Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

John F. Kennedy
Nwo, Office, President