The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotations
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Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.
When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.