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
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.
No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.
It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.
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.
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.