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John F. Kennedy Quotes about Progress

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.571, Best Books on

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

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

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.

Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas