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

John F. Kennedy

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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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" 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. "

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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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" America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. "

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" A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. "

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

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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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" Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. "

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

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" No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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!' "

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" A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. "

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

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" History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. "

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" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. "

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" It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. "

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