John F. Kennedy
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President Kennedy’s words in today’s world. A project of the @JFKLibrary Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, inspiring new generations with his message.
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"We know they will invoke the name of Abraham Lincoln on behalf of their candidate--despite the fact that the political career of their candidate has often seemed to show charity toward none and malice for all."
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"The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future."
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"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."
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"Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us--and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill--constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities."
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"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future."
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"The hour of decision has arrived. We cannot afford to 'wait and see what happens,' while the tide of events sweeps over and beyond us. We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
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"For uncounted millions, Christmas expresses the deepest hopes for a world of peace where love rather than mistrust will flourish between neighbors."
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Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so. There will be further setbacks before the tide is turned. But turn it we must.
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds .. . on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
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A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
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For uncounted millions, Christmas expresses the deepest hopes for a world of peace where love rather than mistrust will flourish between neighbors.
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"On this day of remembrance, let us pray in the name of those who have fought in this country's wars… that there will be no veterans of any further war -- not because all shall have perished but because all shall have learned to live together in peace.”
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"If the right to vote is being denied...no person's place in society is secure."
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There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength… Too many Americans have lost their way, their will and their sense of historic purpose.
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"Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it."
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"The right to vote is very basic. If we are going to neglect that right, then all of our talk about freedom is hollow."
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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
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"On the building in Washington that contains the Archives of the United States... is written: 'What is past is prologue.' Unless we assess fairly the actions of the past, we have no sound basis upon which to plan for the future.'"
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But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
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Our problems are man-made - 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.
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
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Inevitably, the moral standards of a society influence the conduct of all who live within it--the governed and those who govern.
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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.
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...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.
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This is not the land of my birth but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection.
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears... We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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The pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comfort and sometimes their lives to build a new world here in the West. They were not... prisoners of their own price tags. Their motto was not "every man for himself" - but "all for the common cause."
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We cannot say to 10 percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have...I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.
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That is the choice our nation must make--a choice that lies not merely between...two parties, but between the public interest and private comfort--between national greatness and national decline.
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And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people - to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well - the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.
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"This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: 'An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.' We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them."
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Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or an equal motivation, but they should have an equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
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No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to... exercise the ultimate power.
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"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
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"This Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
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"Good health is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of 'pursuit of happiness.' Whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of Americans, for whatever reason... we must find a way to meet their needs and fulfill their hopes."
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For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
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"The right to vote in a free election is the most powerful and precious right in the world- and it must not be denied on the grounds of race."
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
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The pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comfort and sometimes their lives to build a new world here...determined to make that new world strong and free, to overcome its hazards and its hardships, to conquer the enemies that threatened without and within.
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"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
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"If the right to vote is being denied...no person's place in society is secure."
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It is a time, in short, for a new generation of leadership...who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries...who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.
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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.
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"[The Constitution of the United States] stressed not independence but interdependence--not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all."
#ConstitutionDay
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"Unless we assess fairly the actions of the past, we have no sound basis upon which to plan for the future."
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For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
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My call is to the young in heart, regardless of age . . . "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed." For courage--not complacency--is our need today--leadership--not salesmanship.
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And so it is to the printing press — to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
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"Finally, were we truly men of dedication--with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest."
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The U.S. has always served as a lantern in the dark for those who love freedom but are persecuted, in misery, or in need.
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Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so. There will be further setbacks before the tide is turned. But turn it we must.
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"A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
"Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality."
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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
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"Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. But this is not the case."
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The American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate.
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"It is that quality of the Irish- that remarkable combination of hope, confidence and imagination- that is needed more than ever today."
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"Third, were we truly men of integrity--men who never ran out on either the principles in which they believed or the people who believed in them... men whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust?"
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"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
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"I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish... and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
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"The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter."
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I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
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"Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can - and save it we must - and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind."
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"What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time."
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"Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. The answers are by no means clear. All of us together... must forge those answers."
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"I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war--and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task."
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"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."
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"The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land to flourish under freedom and justice"
#MemorialDay
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“Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- -not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world.”
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This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
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“I welcome the opportunity, if elected, to serve as President of the United States, and if unsuccessful to continue to serve in the Senate, at a time when the role of Americans should be one of pride and satisfaction.”
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"For of those to whom much is given, much is required. When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities, [we] will be measured by the answers to 4 questions:"
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“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war -- and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task."
#UniversalHourOfPeace
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"Let the public service be a proud and lively career. And let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government...at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years: 'I served the United States government in that hour of our nation's need.'"
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"We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change."
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"Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it."
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"History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these."
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It is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are...to rest, to wait. But...this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward.
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“Today we are here to celebrate and to honor and to commemorate the dead and the living, the young men who in every war since this country began have given testimony to their loyalty to their country & their own great courage.” November 11, 1961
#VeteransDay
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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.
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
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"Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce."
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If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
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Without leaders of deep intellectual and moral capacity the bountiful resources of our nation will be frittered away...
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"There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."
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"Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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