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The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

John F. Kennedy
Commitment, Political, Nuclear

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, War, History
Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (1965)

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Father, Believe

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

John F. Kennedy
Alarms, Sound, Panic
Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy
Library, October, Should

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Motivational, Country

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

John F. Kennedy
Israel, Support, Presidential
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.373, Best Books on

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

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

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

John F. Kennedy
Defense, Failing, Substitutes
Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, www.jfklibrary.org. November 16, 1961.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

John F. Kennedy
Believe, Men, Differences
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.151, Best Books on

Success has many fathers.

John F. Kennedy
Father

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy
Brother, Dad, Father
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

John F. Kennedy
Law, Employment, Gains

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy
Jobs, New York, Politics

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

John F. Kennedy
Political, Upkeep, Politics
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Space, Apollo
Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

John F. Kennedy
Children, Statistics, Indifferent
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

John F. Kennedy
Self, Progress, Debris
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.306, Best Books on

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

John F. Kennedy
War, Weakness, Path
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.539, Best Books on

I'm an idealist without illusions.

John F. Kennedy
Political, Politics, Illusion
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers

John F. Kennedy
Needs, Answers, Helping

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

John F. Kennedy
Uncles, Play, Usa

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

John F. Kennedy
Weapons, Revolution, Sides
American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

John F. Kennedy
Interest, Term, Policy
Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

John F. Kennedy
Men, Together, Allies
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.383, Best Books on