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| 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 | | Belief; Inventions; Talent | |
| We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. | | Nations | |
| We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. | | Challenge | |
| We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. | | History; Mankind; Power | |
| We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." | | Duty; Freedom; Vision | |
| We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. | | Foreign Relations; US | |
| We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth | | Uncategorized | |
| We must use time as a tool not as a couch | | Time | |
| We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination | | Uncategorized | |
| We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad | | Judgement | |
We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."
Compromise need not mean cowardice. ... | | Uncategorized | |
| We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes | | Uncategorized | |
| We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. | | Uncategorized | |
| We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD. | | Uncategorized | |
| We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. | | Uncategorized | |
| When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!' | | Uncategorized | |
| When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. | | Poetry; Power | |
| When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. | | Uncategorized | |
| When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. | | Opportunity | |
| Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree, and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law | | Uncategorized | |
