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In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, War, Space
Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

John F. Kennedy
Deployment, Weapons, Nuclear
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons.

John F. Kennedy
Strong, War, Race
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.280, Best Books on

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

John F. Kennedy
Opportunity, Program
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

John F. Kennedy
War, Risk, Victory
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.

John F. Kennedy
Home, Opportunity, Practice
Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

John F. Kennedy
Diversity, Poetry, Arrogance
Remarks upon receiving an honorary degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

John F. Kennedy
Sorry, Apology, Technology
"Inclusive Growth". Book by Pratheek Praveen Kumar, p. 18,

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

John F. Kennedy
Football, Motivational Sports, Political

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

John F. Kennedy
Progress, Way, Path

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

John F. Kennedy
Party, Hymns, Political
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.

John F. Kennedy
Race, Space, Long
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.26, Best Books on

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

John F. Kennedy
Presidential, Three, Headache
Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda, in 1961. "President Kennedy: Profile of Power". Book by Richard Reeves, 1993.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John F. Kennedy
Father, Wife, Different
"A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years". Book by Ralph G. Martin, 1983.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy
Strength, Country, Military
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Change, Unchanging

Everything changes but change itself.

John F. Kennedy
Change, Things Change
Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

John F. Kennedy
Work, Pay, Walks
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

John F. Kennedy
Government, People, Effort
Latin American Diplomatic Corps Reception Speech, delivered day 13 March 1961, East Room, White House

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Law, Laws Of Life
Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

You're in there with me. Personally.

John F. Kennedy
War, Cold, Cold War

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Virginia, Years
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits are high. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.

John F. Kennedy
Cutting, Men, Plant
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

The mere absence of war is not peace.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, War, Military
Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 14, 1963.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy
Fighting, Race, White
Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963