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Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty

Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.

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

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

John F. Kennedy
Sides, Problem, Divides
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

John F. Kennedy
Writing, Careers, Two
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

John F. Kennedy
Government, Self, Democracy

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

John F. Kennedy
Education, Money, Long
"John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

John F. Kennedy
Powerful, Political, Machines
John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

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

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

John F. Kennedy
War, Winning, Men

We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

John F. Kennedy
People, Phrases, Use
Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

John F. Kennedy
Grandfather, England, Accepted

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Progress, Quests
Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

John F. Kennedy
Party, Men, Generosity
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.469, Best Books on

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

John F. Kennedy
Israel, Order, Disappear

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Power, Danger

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

John F. Kennedy
Easter, White, Yesterday
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.347, Best Books on

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

John F. Kennedy
Leisure, Hardest

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

John F. Kennedy
Guarantees That, Effort, One Day
Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, War, Concern

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

John F. Kennedy
Life, Stupid, Experts
Quoted in Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy (1965)

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.

John F. Kennedy
Life, Lonely, Memories
Address to the Massachusetts legislature on January 09, 1961. "Congressional Record", Volume 107, Appendix, p. A169, January 10, 1961.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

John F. Kennedy
Country, War, Pride
Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

John F. Kennedy
Moving, Doe, World

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

John F. Kennedy
Reading, Horizon, Way

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

John F. Kennedy
Wall, War, Cold
"Savage century". The Sunday Times, May 28, 2006.

I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun.

John F. Kennedy
Fun, Healthy, Walks