I leave you the best phrases of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), the thirty-fifth president of the United States, considered by many as the icon of the eternal American aspirations and hopes.
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-Those who dare to fail miserably can have great success.
-We chose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are difficult.
-A man can die, nations may rise and fall, but ideas continue to live. Ideas have resistance without death.
-Change is a law of life. And those who look only to the past or to the present will certainly miss the future.
-The time to repair the roof is when the Sun is shining.
-The ignorance of a voter in a democracy harms the security of all.
-We need men who can dream things that have never existed.
-Mankind must end the war before the war ends humanity.
-A man does what he has to do, despite personal consequences, despite obstacles, despite dangers and despite pressures. And those are the foundations of all human morality.
-The most powerful individual force in the world today is not communism or capitalism. Nor is it the hydrogen bomb or the guided missiles. It is the eternal desire of man to be independent and free.
-The only immutable certainty is that nothing is certain or immutable.
-A boy spends his time trying to find a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for a woman worth waking up with.
-The best path to progress is the path of freedom.
-Effort and courage are not enough without a purpose and a direction.
-Democracy and defense are not substitutes for each other. Any one of them alone would fail.
-In a crisis, pay attention to danger, but recognize the opportunity.
-Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-The rights of all men are diminished when the rights of a man are threatened.
-American friend, don't ask what the country can do for you; ask yourself what you can do for your country.
-We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
-A badly educated child is a lost child.
-If a society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of development.
-Victory has hundreds of parents, while defeat is an orphan.
-We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-Leadership and learning are indispensable between them.
-Don't pray for an easy life, pray for being a stronger man.
-If we cannot put an end to our differences, at least we can help make the world a safe place for diversity.
-Freedom without learning is always in danger, and learning without freedom is always in vain.
-We should never negotiate based on fear. But we should never be afraid to negotiate.
- We must not look for the republican answer or the democratic answer, but we must look for the correct answer. We should not seek to blame the past. We must accept our own responsibility for the future.
-We cannot negotiate with people who consider that what is mine is mine and what is yours is what is negotiable.
-Peace is a daily process, a weekly process, a monthly process, which gradually changes opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, silently building new structures.
-I am an idealist without illusions.
-Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive.
-Art is the great democrat, calling for the creative genius of each sector of society, without distinguishing race or religion, wealth or color.
-When power leads a man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.
-If it's not us, who? If not now when?
-We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- Tolerance does not imply a lack of commitment to someone's beliefs. Instead, what he does is condemn the oppression or persecution of others.
-Not all children have the same talent, the same abilities or the same motivation, but they should have the same rights to develop their talents, their abilities and their motivations, to be themselves.
- Immigration policy must be generous, it must be fair, it must be flexible. With a policy like that we can look at the world, and look at our own past, with clean hands and a clean conscience.
- Regardless of whether they are young in spirit or young in age, the members of the democratic party should never lose that youthful spirit for new ideas and for a better world, which is what has made us great.
-If more politicians knew about poetry, and if more poets knew about politics, I am convinced that the world would be a slightly better place in which to live.
-We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, and that we cannot impose our will on the other 94 percent of humanity.
-A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors and the men it remembers.
-The definition of happiness of the ancient Greeks was that of the complete use of your powers through a line of excellence.
-The problems of the world cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men who can dream things that have never been done.
-Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may not be habitable. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
-The cost of freedom is always high, but the Americans have always paid it. And there is a path that we will never choose, which is the path of surrender or submission.
-The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of the truth.
-The great enemy of the truth is often not the persuasive, deliberate, artificial and dishonest lie, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
-We must use time as a tool, not as a sofa.
-The geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. The economy has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has put together, let us not let man tear them to pieces.
-Our progress as a nation cannot be lighter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
-All mothers want their children to grow up and become presidents, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
-In times of domestic crisis, men of good will and generosity must be able to unite regardless of party or policies.
-I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
-Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be man-made. There is no problem in human destiny that is above human beings themselves.
-The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
-The growth of the economy without social progress leaves the vast majority of people in poverty, while a few privileged ones reap the benefits of a growing abundance.
-Our increasing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a threat to our safety.
-If art is to feed the roots of our culture, society must leave the artist free to follow his vision wherever it may take him.
-Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, but it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
-We are tied to the ocean. And when we return to the sea, whether to sail or to watch, we will return to where we came from.
-There are many people in the world who do not really understand - or say they do not - what is the great problem between the free world and the communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
-When expressing our gratitude, we must never forget that the greatest appreciation is not pronouncing words, but living according to them.
-We are not here to condemn the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sensible future.
-Of course it's a great job; But I don't know anyone who can do it better than me
-We are not committed to any inflexible formula. We are not looking for perfect solutions either. We are not dogmatic because we are liberal.
-What kind of peace are we looking for? What does true peace mean, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that allows men and nations to grow, hope, and build a better life for their children?
-You can fool everyone for a short time, you can fool some all the time, but you cannot fool everyone all the time.
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been assembled in the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
-We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, extraterrestrial philosophies and competitive values.
-Too often we cling to the cliches of our ancestors. We submit all the facts to a ready-made set of interpretations.
-Two things: the salary is good and I can walk to work.
-The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mix of triumph and tragedy.
-Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer be used to resolve disputes… it can no longer be a matter of concern only to the great powers.
-Our most basic common bond is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all value the future of our children. And we are all mortal.
-My brother Bob has no ambition to be in the government, he promised Dad that he would go directly.
-The basic problems facing the world are not susceptible to a military solution.
- If by a "liberal" you mean someone who looks forward and not backward, someone who accepts new ideas without harsh reactions… if that is what you mean about a "liberal", then I am proud to say that I am..
-Repeat it often enough and the masses will find it true.
-Libraries should be open to everyone, except the censor.
-If this nation is to be as wise as it is strong, if we want to reach our destiny, then we need more new ideas for wiser men to read more good books in more public libraries.
-Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
-One person can make a difference and everyone should try.
-All of our material riches will be of little use to us if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
-Justice delayed is democracy denied.
-Only in winter you can tell which trees are really green. Only when the wind of adversity blows, you can tell if an individual or a country is firm.
-Remember that the first great leaders of our nation were also our first great scholars.
-No sane society decides to commit national suicide.
-The man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
-Political action is the greatest responsibility of a citizen.
-Colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by the old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich.
-The exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have not given their consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.
-He had a boundless ambition for his country that made him a threat to world peace, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the way of his death that will live and grow after him.
-The basis of effective government is the trust of the public.
-The United States Air Force assures me that UFOs do not pose a threat to National Security.
-A country is as strong, in reality, as its citizens. And I believe that mental and physical health, mental and physical vigor, go hand in hand.
-It's time for a new generation of leadership.
-We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
-Of those who are given much, much is expected.