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Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

John F. Kennedy
Art, Reality, Faithful

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

John F. Kennedy
Men, World, Chains

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Life, Change
Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, Children, Men
American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

John F. Kennedy
Patriotic, Hands, Storm
The New York Times, May 15, 1964.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

John F. Kennedy
President, Strongest

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

John F. Kennedy
Fairs

Fail miserably, achieve greatly!

John F. Kennedy
Failing, Achieve

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

John F. Kennedy
Growth, Fruit, Process
"John F. Kennedy: 1963 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to November 22, 1963" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1964.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

John F. Kennedy
Athlete, Presidential, Spectators
Remarks at National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Banquet on December 05, 1961. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Physical Fitness", www.jfklibrary.org.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, Source, Scouting

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

John F. Kennedy
Art, Race, Color
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.847, Best Books on

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Crazy, Sacrifice
"With Kennedy". Book by Pierre Salinger, Chapter 1: Lancer to Wayside, page 1, 1966.

The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

John F. Kennedy
Decision, Add, Mobility
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.74, Best Books on

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

John F. Kennedy
Land, Immigration, Needs

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

John F. Kennedy
Lying, Moving, Past
Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

John F. Kennedy
Loss, Voice, Suffering

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

John F. Kennedy
Moving, America, Progress
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.571, Best Books on

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

John F. Kennedy
Wise, Mistake, Responsibility
Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

John F. Kennedy
Opportunity, Today, Peril
Speech accepting Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, 15 July 1960, in Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 1960, p. 611

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John F. Kennedy
Cities, Neglect, Peril
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.78, Best Books on

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Courage, Bravery
John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Brave, Facts

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

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

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

John F. Kennedy
Nature, Time, Hands
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.148, Best Books on