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" I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me. "

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" Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. "

" The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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. "

" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. "

" We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. "

" A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. "

" We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future. "

" It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. "

" Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. "

" The pay is good and I can walk to work. "

" The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. "

" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "

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" I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. "

" All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!' "

" Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. "

" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. "

" We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. "

" Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. "

" The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. "

" Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

" The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

" Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. "

" Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. "

" Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. "

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

" 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. "

" To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. "