“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." "Just think what my margin might have been if I had never left home at all." "Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
At the close of his remarks at the 1963 National Prayer Breakfast, JFK quoted Reverend Phillips Brooks: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came." Such beautiful words spoken by John F. Kennedy in Newport, Rhode Island on the occasion of the America's Cup.
This folder contains materials maintained by President John F. Kennedy's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, prior to and during his presidency, and consists of the President's favorite poem, "Ulysses," by Alfred Tennyson.
"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a remark made during the 1988 United States vice-presidential debate by Democratic candidate Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican candidate Senator Dan Quayle in response to Quayle's mentioning the name of John F.
“the other things” were non-space-based political and legislative initiatives of his he was pitching, such as economic development/growth, including water/agriculture.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” “What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
"A time for greatness" – U.S. presidential campaign theme of John F. Kennedy (Kennedy also used "We Can Do Better" and "Leadership for the 60s").
Nellie Connally turned and commented to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her, "Mr. President, they can't make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love and appreciate you, can they?" Kennedy's reply – "No, they sure can't" – were his last words.
The famous Theodore Roosevelt quote about striving valiantly and daring greatly. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
Profiles in Courage won Kennedy the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and was also the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Independent candidate Ross Perot chose retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale as his running mate in 1992.
To help try and explain the tragedy, Kennedy recalled the words of Aeschylus, whose words from Agamemnon had comforted him following the assassination of his brother: “He [Aeschylus] once wrote: 'Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, ...
With so many people looking for a relationship with him as he rose through the political ranks, there was one man who stood out as one of JFK's near-constant companions. His name was Lem Billings. This week, we'll look into the man who is often referred to as JFK's best friend.
"In the Summer of His Years" is a 1963 pop song with lyrics written by Herb Kretzmer and music by David Lee. Kretzmer and Lee composed the song as a tribute hours after learning that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
The bronze casket had been damaged in transit, and was later disposed of by the Air Force in the Atlantic Ocean so that it would not "fall into the hands of sensation seekers." President Kennedy's body was returned to the White House at about 4:30 a.m. EST on Saturday, November 23.
In his speech the President discusses the necessity for the United States to become an international leader in space exploration and famously states, "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."
After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.