John F. Kennedy Quotes about History

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

John F. Kennedy

Change, Destiny, History

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

John F. Kennedy

History, Our Actions, Made

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.19, Best Books on

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John F. Kennedy

Life, History, Permit

Speech to the Forth Worth Chamber of Commerce, delivered 22 November 1963

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, History

Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (1965)