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A child miseducated is a child lost.  
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite ...  
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.  
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past ...  
A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are...  
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military servic...  
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And ther...  
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it b...  
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.  
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;...   Patriotism
Art, that great undogmatized church.  
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest app...  
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or pres...  
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.  
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.  
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standin...  
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.  
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. ...  
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.   Forgiveness
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economic...  
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushi...   History
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Par...  
I am reading it more and enjoying it less.  
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that l...  
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have e...  
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I g...  
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was B...  
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vo...  
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack...  
I know that the White House was designed by James Hoban, a noted Irish...  
I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in i...  
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its militar...  
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our c...  
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and bea...   Nature
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.  
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human ...  
I'm an idealist without illusions.  
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save th...  
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United St...  
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the ar...  
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, ...  
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the wo...   History
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will...  
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been gra...  
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and ...  
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing f...  
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard ed...  
It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.  
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on th...  
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.  
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its te...  
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall...  
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alik...  
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate...  
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but th...   History
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.  
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.  
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.  
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.  
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they...  
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't...  
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd...   Politics
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, bu...  
My God, in this job he's got the nerve of a burglar.  
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to...  
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all ...  
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And ma...  
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in educat...  
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opin...  
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healt...  
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.  
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than...  
Tell him, if he doesn't mind, we'll shake hands.  
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a mil...  
The best road to progress is freedom's road.  
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it....  
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courag...  
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with th...  
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemin...  
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, co...  
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.  
The human mind is our fundamental resource.  
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.  
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set...  
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all pat...  
The pay is good and I can walk to work.  
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cyn...  
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mo...  
The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fou...  
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.  
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and w...  
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the...  
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say ...  
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the lo...  
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some ...   Equality
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.  
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.  
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolu...   Peace
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the...  
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather i...  
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of...  
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.  
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector ...  
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.  
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts...  
We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is...  
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it i...  
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conform...  
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the h...  
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in t...  
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s...  
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it...   History
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limit...  
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find ...  
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characte...   History
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.