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" The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. "

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" 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!' "

John F. Kennedy

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" Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure? "

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

" If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. "

" The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. "

" If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

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

" 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. "

" Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "

" The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. "

" We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

" War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. "

" A child miseducated is a child lost. "

" There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. "

" 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. "

" We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. "

" Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. "

" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

" 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. "

" When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. "

" Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. "

" Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "

" Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. "

John F. Kennedy

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" The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

" Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. "

" The best road to progress is freedom's road. "

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

" Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. "

" Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. "

" The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. "