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probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

John F. Kennedy
House, Genius, Talent
New York Times 30 Apr. 1962, p. 1

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

John F. Kennedy
Defeat, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Life, Writing
Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, Cutting, Two
Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

John F. Kennedy
Art, Achievement, Progress
Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.

John F. Kennedy
Country, United States, Income

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John F. Kennedy
Sad, Teacher, Appreciation
Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Believe, America
Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

John F. Kennedy
Jobs, Individual Effort, Magic

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

John F. Kennedy
Funny, Humor, Law
Quoted in Victor Lasky, J.F.K.: TheMan and the Myth (1963)

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

John F. Kennedy
Children, Air, Sea
Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Space, United States
Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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!

John F. Kennedy
Issues, People, German History
1963 Address in Berlin's Rudolf Wilde Platz, 26 Jun, 22 months after the erection of the wall dividing the city.

Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

John F. Kennedy
Organization, Rights, Views

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

John F. Kennedy
War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation
Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

John F. Kennedy
Real, Events, Purpose
Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, Moon, Men
Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

John F. Kennedy
Spiritual, Children, Presidential
"Special message to the Congress on Conservation". March 1, 1962.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

John F. Kennedy
New Ventures, Decision, Risk
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

John F. Kennedy
Moving, Elephants, Ivory
Speech at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, on November 02, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

John F. Kennedy
Yield, Government, Years

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Motivational, Fitness

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, School, Men
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John F. Kennedy
Travel, New Beginnings, Journey
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, Future, Science