John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, and the Civil Rights Movement all took place...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
So, 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.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.