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John F. Kennedy Quotes


We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.