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John F. Kennedy Quotes

"Forgive your enemies but never forget their names""The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.""As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.""Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.""I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.""Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.""The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.""When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.""Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country""Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.""We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard""A man may die nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on""Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan""Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction""Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind""Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth""The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened""If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"