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"If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches." JFK Quotes
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John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. Though his life was unfortunately short, his words live forever. Here are some of his quick, famous quotes.
| | A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. |
| | The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. |
| | Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. |
| | A scientist has to prove every day that he belongs to the human part of mankind. |
| | Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
| | The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. |
| | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. |
| | If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. |
| | Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. |
| | Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. |
| | Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. |
| | Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. |
| | I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. |
| | Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. |
| | Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. |
| | In short, at a time when they could be exploring how more efficiency and better prices could be obtained... a few gigantic corporations have decided to increase prices in ruthless disregard of their public responsibilities. |
| | a warning to the American people not to fall into the same trap as the Soviets, not to see only a distorted and desperate view of the other side, not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats. |
| | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich |
| | Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war. |
| | I believe in an America... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source |
| | Our primary long-range interest in Geneva, however, is general and complete disarmament -- designed to take place by stages, permitting parallel political developments to build the new institutions of peace which would take the place of arms. |
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