John F. Kennedy Quotes

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John F. Kennedy Quotes

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John F. Kennedy

Politician

Hopeful

“One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.”

Years Law Land

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John F. Kennedy

Politician

Hopeful

“Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.”

Born Presidential Alliances

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Sad

“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.”

Problem Vietnam Vietnam War

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Sad

“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.”

Defeat Foreign Policy

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Optimistic

“Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

Men Independent

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Spiritual

“No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.”

Men Taken Office

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Hopeful

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.”

Decision Risk New Ventures

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Hopeful

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.”

Believe America Catholic

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Hopeful

“It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.”

Believe Children Mother

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Confident

“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”

Political Party Hymns

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Creative

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.”

People Art Creativity

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Thoughtful

“Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.”

Art Government Today

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