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Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is

Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

John F. Kennedy
Agency, America, Confusion
Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.

John F. Kennedy
Integrity, Lying, Son
Address to a Joint Convention of the General Court of, delivered 9 January 1961

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

John F. Kennedy
Work, Men, Doctors

The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.

John F. Kennedy
War, Taken, Men
Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

John F. Kennedy
Balance, Population, Weapons
Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

John F. Kennedy
Passion, Thinking, People
Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

John F. Kennedy
Income, Revolution, Farming

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

John F. Kennedy
Years, Ideas, Intellectual
Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Funny, Graduation
Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

John F. Kennedy
Baseball, Football, Taken
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.30, Best Books on

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

John F. Kennedy
Rest In Peace, Lying, Heart
Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Law, Special

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

John F. Kennedy
Positive, Optimistic, Thinking

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

John F. Kennedy
War, Destiny, Race

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

John F. Kennedy
Doubt, Arms, Certain
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

John F. Kennedy
Rights, Thank God, Movement

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

John F. Kennedy
Government, Controversial

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, War, Victory
Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

John F. Kennedy
Wall, Ideas, Long
News Conference, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

John F. Kennedy
Sea, Depth, Upheaval

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

John F. Kennedy
Justice, Acting, Yoke
Fourth of July Address at Independence Hall, delivered 4 July 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

John F. Kennedy
Artist, Discovery, Discipline

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

John F. Kennedy
Law, Community, Shadow
Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Children, Taken

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy
White, Battle, Foxholes
Message to Congress on proposed civil rights bill, 19 June 1963