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1. "Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life." ~ John F. Kennedy
2. "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.[State of the Union Address January 11 1962]" ~ John F. Kennedy
3. "Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color" ~ John F. Kennedy
4. "We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war." ~ John F. Kennedy
5. "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light a candle that can guide us through the darkness to a safe and sure future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.The problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.It has been a long road to this crowded convention city. Now begins another long journey, taking me into your cities and towns and homes all over America.Give me your help. Give me your hand, your voice and your vote." ~ John F. Kennedy
6. "Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again." ~ John F. Kennedy
7. "Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside" ~ John F. Kennedy
8. "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic." ~ John F. Kennedy
9. "It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours." ~ John F. Kennedy
10. "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." ~ John F. Kennedy
11. "So, let us not be blind to our differences- but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved." ~ John F. Kennedy
12. "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]" ~ John F. Kennedy
13. "Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive." ~ John F. Kennedy
14. "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." ~ John F. Kennedy
15. "The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds." ~ John F. Kennedy
16. "It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself."[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]" ~ John F. Kennedy
17. "No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth." ~ John F. Kennedy
18. "A child miseducated is a child lost." ~ John F. Kennedy
19. "A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to." ~ John F. Kennedy
20. "Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art." ~ John F. Kennedy
21. "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
22. "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ~ John F. Kennedy
23. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." ~ John F. Kennedy
24. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John F. Kennedy
25. "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." ~ John F. Kennedy
26. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ John F. Kennedy
27. "The best road to progress is freedom's road." ~ John F. Kennedy
28. "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." ~ John F. Kennedy
29. "We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." ~ John F. Kennedy
30. "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." ~ John F. Kennedy
31. "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." ~ John F. Kennedy
32. "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." ~ John F. Kennedy
33. "Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy
34. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." ~ John F. Kennedy
35. "Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others." ~ John F. Kennedy
36. "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." ~ John F. Kennedy
37. "To those whom much is given, much is expected." ~ John F. Kennedy
38. "But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)" ~ John F. Kennedy
39. "A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability." ~ John F. Kennedy
40. "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on." ~ John F. Kennedy
41. "After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made." ~ John F. Kennedy
42. "The life of the arts... is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." ~ John F. Kennedy
43. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." ~ John F. Kennedy
44. "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own." ~ John F. Kennedy
45. "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." ~ John F. Kennedy
46. "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us." ~ John F. Kennedy
47. "I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead." ~ John F. Kennedy
48. "Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment,...We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last." ~ John F. Kennedy
49. "Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan." ~ John F. Kennedy
50. "World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . ." ~ John F. Kennedy
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