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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.
- speech, April 12, 1959
  • 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.
- speech, December 11, 1959
  • Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
- speech, October 20, 1960
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- Inaugural address, 1961
  • Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- Inaugural address, 1961
  • 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.
- Press Conference, March 23, 1962
  • The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- State of the Union address, 1962
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.
- speech, July 3, 1963
  • Our problems are man-made; therefore thy may be solved by man.
- speech, June 10, 1963
  • The supreme reality of our time is... the vulnerability of our planet.
- speech, June 28, 1963
  • 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.
- speech, October 26, 1963
  • Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- saying
  • Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm.
- quoted in Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (A Thousand Days)

Arthur Charles Clarke


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