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" 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. "

John F. Kennedy

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" 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. "

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" I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. "

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

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" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "

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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. "

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" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. "

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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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" Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "

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" The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. "

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" Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. "

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" In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. "

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

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" 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. "

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" There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. "

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" In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. "

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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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" Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. "

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

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" The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. "

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

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" My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. "

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" I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. "

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

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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. "

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