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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Diversity, Unity
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.15, Best Books on

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Given, Expected

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy
4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers
Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Religion, Earth

Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy
Children, Mean, Air
American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, Mean, Ubuntu

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Education, Teaching
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

John F. Kennedy
Three, Headache, Terrible

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Success, Encouraging
Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

John F. Kennedy
Golf, Men, Games

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John F. Kennedy
Business, People, Growth
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.178, Best Books on

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

John F. Kennedy
Law, Liberty, Defiance
John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy
Motivational, Commitment, Tolerance

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

John F. Kennedy
Office, Politics, Torn

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Freedom, 4th Of July
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

John F. Kennedy
Truth, Reality, Thinking
"Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.

John F. Kennedy

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

John F. Kennedy
Success, Laughter, Real

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

John F. Kennedy
Giving, World, Speech

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy
Country, War, Power

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Honor, Remember
Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

John F. Kennedy
War, Struggle, Twilight
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961. The words in quotation marks are from the Bible, Romans 12:12.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy
Years, President, Citizens
Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

John F. Kennedy
Hands, Peaceful, Tasks
Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

John F. Kennedy
Power, Best Effort, Riding
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961