| JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY |
| �A child miseducated is a child lost.�
�And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.� �Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.� �I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers.� �I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.� (to his Nobel Prize-winning guests) �If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.� �If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.� �Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.� �Our task now is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.� �Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.� �To be courageous�requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstances. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.� [Profiles in Courage] �War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.� �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 never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.� �When power leads man towards 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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.� �When things go wrong they like to blame the President, and that's one the things that Presidents are paid for.� �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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