We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

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