John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963), John F Kennedy in short, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an US politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure.Wisdom & Quotes
- When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- There is always enequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country... Life is unfair.
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Our previleges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
- speech, May 18, 1963
- (Communism) has never come to power in a country that was not disturbed by war or internal corruption or both.
- Our problems are man-made; therefore thy may be solved by man.
- The supreme reality of our time is... the vulnerability of our planet.
- When power narrows the areas of man's concerns, peotry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm.
Arthur Charles Clarke