VARIOUS SPEECH OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-1963).
"We're
eyeball to eyeball,and I
think
the other fellow just blinked."
Secretary of State Rusk
Cuban
Missle Crisis
Because
I could not stop for Death,
He
kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but
just
ourselves, And immortality."
--Emily
Dickinson
Within
the first few months, I discovered that
being
president is like riding a tiger. A man
has to
keep
on riding or be swallowed.
Harry
S. Truman
100 Days
"All
this will not be finished in the first 100 days.
Nor
will it be finished in the first 1,000 days,
not
in the life of this Administration,
nor
even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But
let us begin,"
Afraid
"We
are not afraid to entrust the American people with
unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and
competitive
values. For a nation that is afraid to let
its
people judge the truth and falsehood in an open
market
is a nation that is afraid of its people."
American
"Every
American ought to have the right to be treated;
as
he would like to be treated, as one would wish
to
be treated, as one would wish his children
to
be treated."
I
look forward to an America which commands
respect
throughout the world, not only for its
strength,
but for its civilization as well. And
I
look forward to a world which will be safe not
only
for democracy and diversity but also for
personal
distinction.
JFK
10/26/63 Amherst College
Arts
If
art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society
must set the artist free to follow his vision
wherever
it takes him.
JFK,
10/26/63
I
look forward to an America which will not be afraid
of
grace and beauty.
JFK
10/26/63
We
must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda;
it
is a form of truth.
JFK
10/26/63
Balanced Budget
"A
tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits
and
a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the
federal
government will ultimately end up with more revenues.
Prosperity
is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering
tax
rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax
revenues
and finally bring our budget into balance."
John
F. Kennedy
Source:
September 18, 1963
Berlin
The
freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot
negotiate
with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and
what's
yours is negotiable.'
John
F. Kennedy, 1961
Change
Change
is the law of life. And those who look
only to
the
past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John
F. Kennedy
Source:Speech,
June 25, 1963
Conformity
"Conformity
is the jailer of freedom and the enemy
of
growth."
-John
F. Kennedy (1917-63)
Constitution
The
Constitution makes us not rivals for power but
partners
for progress.
John
F. Kennedy, State of Union, 1962
Courage
Any
dangerous spot is tenable if brave men will
make
it so.
The
stories of past courage can define that
ingredient--they
can teach, they can offer hope,
they
can provide inspiration. But they cannot
supply
courage itself. For this each man must
look
into his oun soul.
JFK,
Profiles in Courage, 1956
Without
belittling the courage with which men
have
died, we should not forget those acts of
courage
with which men...have lived. The
courage
of life is often a less dramatic
spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but
it is no less a magnificent mixture of
triumph
and tragedy.
JFK,
Profiles in Courage, 1956
Crisis
"When
written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is
composed
of two characters--one represents danger,
and
the other represents opportunity."
Diplomacy
and defense are not substitutes for one
another. Either alone will fail.
Campaign
Speech 9/6/60
Great
crises produce great men, and great deeds
of
courage.
JFK
The
time to repair the roof
is
when the sun is shining.
JFK
Courage
Any
dangerous spot is tenable if brave men will
make
it so.
The
stories of past courage can define that
ingredient--
they can teach, they can offer hope,
they
can provide inspiration. But they cannot
supply
courage itself. For this each man must
look
into his oun soul.
JFK,
Profiles in Courage, 1956
Without
belittling the courage with which men
have
died, we should not forget those acts of
courage
with which men...have lived. The
courage
of life is often a less dramatic
spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but
it is no less a magnificent mixture of
triumph
and tragedy.
JFK,
Profiles in Courage, 1956
Cuba
It shall be the policy of this Nation to
regard
any
nuclear missile launched from Cuba against
any
nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack
by
the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring
a
full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.
Finally,
I want to say a few words to the captive
people
of Cuba, to whom this speech is being
directly
carried by special radio facilities.
I
speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of
your
deep attachment to your fatherland, as one
who
shares your aspirations for liberty and justice
for
all. And I have watched and the American people
have
watched with deep sorrow how your nationalist
revolution
was betrayed-and how your fatherland
fell
under foreign domination. Now your leaders
are
no longer Cuban leaders inspired by Cuban
ideals.
They are puppets and agents of an
international
conspiracy which has turned Cuba
against
your friends and neighbors in the
Americas-and
turned it into the first Latin American
country
to become a target for nuclear war—the
first
Latin American country to have these
weapons
on its soil
My
fellow citizens: let no one doubt that this is
a
difficult and dangerous effort on which we have
set
out. No one can foresee precisely what course
it
will take or what costs or casualties will be
incurred.
Many months of sacrifice and
self-discipline
lie ahead—months in which both
our
patience and our will will be tested—months
in
which many threats and denunciations will keep
us
aware of our dangers. But the greatest danger
of
all would be to do nothing
The
path we have chosen for the present is full of
hazards,
as all paths are—but it is the one most
consistent
with our character and courage as a
nation
and our commitments around the world.
The
cost of freedom is always high-but Americans
have
always paid it. And one path we shall never
choose,
and that is the path of surrender or
submission.
Our
goal is not the victory of might, but the
vindication
of right-not peace at the expense
of
freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in
this
hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world.
God
willing, that goal will be achieved.
July
4, 1962
Democracy
Democracy
is never a final achievement.
It
is a call to untiring effort,
to
continual sacrifice.
Democratic Party
Our
duty as a party is not to our party alone, but
to
the nation and, indeed, to all mankind. Our
duty
is not merely the preservation of political
power
but the preservation of peace and freedom.
John
F. Kennedy, speech planed for Dallas Texas,
11-22-1960
Democrats Vs. Republicans
We
have all made mistakes. But Dante tells us that divine
justice
weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins
of
the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the
occasional
faults of a party living in the spirit of
charity
than the consistent omissions of a party
frozen
in the ice of its own indifference.
John
F. Kennedy, 1960
Source:Garrison
Keillor, Homegrown Democrat, pp69
Economy
Economic
growth without social progress lets
the
great majority of the people remain in
poverty,
while a privleged few reap the benefits
of
rising abundance.
Economic
policy can result from governmental
inaction
as well as governmental action.
Environment
The
Supreme Reality of Our Time is...the Vulnerability of our Planet"
John
F. Kennedy (1917-1963), speech, June 28, 1963
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/quotes.htm
Education
Let
us think of education as the means of developing
our
greatest abilities, because in each of us there
is
a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can
be
translated into benefit for everyone and greater
strength
for our nation.
A
child miseducated is a child lost.
JFK
State of the Union, 1963
Education...is
the mainspring of our economic and
social
progress...It is the hightest expression
of
achievement in our society, ennobling and
enriching
human life.
It
might be said now that I have the best of both
worlds:
a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
JFK
accepting a Yale degree, 6/12/63
Enemies
Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names
Executives In Steel Industry
In
this serious hour in our Nation's history, when
we
are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and
Southeast
Asia, when we are devoting our energies
to
economic recovery and stability, when we are
asking
reservists to leave their homes and families
for
months on end and servicemen to risk their lives--
and
four were killed in the last 2 days in Viet-Nam
and
asking union members to hold down their wage
requests
at a time when restraint and sacrifice
are
being asked of every citizen, the American
people
will find it hard, as I do, to accept
a
situation in which a tiny handful of steel
executives
whose pursuit of private power and
profit
exceeds their sense of public responsibility
can
show such utter contempt for the interests
of
185 million Americans.
Environment
It
is our task in our time and in our generation to
hand
down undiminished to those who come after us,
as
was handed down to us by those who went before,
the
natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
John
F. Kennedy, March 1961
Never
before has man had such capacity to control
his
own environment, to end thrist and hunger, to
conguer
poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy
and
massive human misery. We have the power to make
this
the best generation of mankind in the history
of
the world--or to make it the last.
John
F. Kennedy, UN address, 9-20-1963
Equality
This
nation was founded by men of many nations and
backgrounds.
It was founded on the principle that
all
men are created equal and that the rights of
every
man are diminished when the rights of one man
are
threatened.
John
F. Kennedy 6-11-1963
Farmer
The
American farmer is the only man in our economy
who
buys everything he buys at retail, sells everything
he
sells at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
John
F. Kennedy, 9-22-1960
Forgiveness
Forgive,
but never forget.
Future
"I
look forward to a great future for America,
a
future in which our country will match its
military
strength with our moral restraint,
its
wealth with our wisdom, its power with our
purpose.
. . . And I look forward to an America
which
commands respect throughout the world not
only
for its strength but for its
civilization
as well."
--
John F. Kennedy honoring Robert Frost, Oct. 26, 1963
"The
wave of the future is not the conquest of
the
world by a single dogmatic creed but the
liberation
of the diverse energies of free nations
and
free men."
We
have come too far, we have sacrificed too much,
to
disdain the furture now.
John
F. Kennedy
Global Affairs
We
no longer live in a world where only the actual
firing
of weapons represents a sufficient
challenge
to a nation's security to constitute
maximum
peril.
John
F. Kennedy, 10-22-1962
Hero
[Mr.
President, how did you become a war hero?]
It
was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.
John
F. Kennedy
Source:The
Kennedy Wit
Honesty and Trust
For
the great enemy of truth is very often not the
lie--deliberate,
contrived and dishonest--but the
myth--persistent,
persuasive--of our forebears.
We
enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort
of
thought.
John
F. Kennedy, Yale, 6-11-1962
I
would rather be accused of breaking precedents than
breaking
promises.
John
F. Kennedy
Idealism
In
each of us, there is a private hope and dream
which,
fulfilled, can be translated into benefit
for
everyone.
John
F. Kennedy
I
look forward to a great future for America--a future
in
which our country will match its military strenght
with
our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom,
its
power with our purpose.
John
F. Kennedy, 10-26-1963
There
will always be dissident voices heard in the
land,
expressing opposition without alternatives,
finding
fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on
every
side and seeking influence without responsibility.
John
F. Kennedy, Speech for Dallas Texas, 11-22-1963
nut
never delivered.
A
man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea
lives
on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John
F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address
"Ask
not what your country can do for you -
ask
what you can do for your country."
The
world is a very different now...and yet the same
revolutionary
beliefs for which our forebears fought
are
still at issue around the globe--the belief that
the
rights of man come not from the generosity of the
state
but from the hand of God.
John
F. Kennedy
Let
us never negotiate out of fear but let us
never
fear to negotiate.
John
F. Kennedy, 1-20-1961
"Let
every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall
pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose
any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
JFK
Inaugural address, January 20, 1961.
Only
when our arms are sufficient, without doubt,
can
we be certain, without doubt, that they will never
be
employed.
John
F. Kennedy
Now
the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to
bear
arms, though arms we need--not as a call to
battle,
though embattled we are--but a call to bear
the
burden of a long twilight struggle year in and
year
out 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation'
--a
struggle against the common enemies of man:
tyranny,
poverty, disease and war itself.
John
F. Kennedy
With
a good conscience our only sure reward, with
history
the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth
to
lead the land we love.
John
F. Kennedy.
Individualism
Conformity
is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of
growth.
John
F. Kennedy, Speech to The UN. 1961
Judgement
We
shall be judged more by what we do at home than
what
we preach abroad.
John
F. Kennedy, State of the Union, 1963
Knowledge
"In
a time of turbulence and change,
it
is more true today than ever that knowledge
is
power."
Laughter
"There
are three things in life which are real:
God,
human folly and laughter. Since the first
two
are beyond our comprehension,
we
must do what we can with the third."
Law
I
don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little
experience
before he starts to practice law.
John
F. Kennedy, appointing his brother Bobby
US
attorney general
Only
a respect for the law makes it possible for
free
men to dwell together in peace and progress....
Law
is the adhesive force in the cement of society,
creating
order out of chaos and coherence in place
of
anarchy.
John
F. Kennedy, 5-18-1963
Liberty and Learning
"Liberty
without learning is always in peril
and
learning without liberty is always in vain."
Morality and Spirit
A man does what he must - in spite of personal
consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers -
and
this is the basis of all human morality.
Mothers and Sons and Being President
"Mothers
all want their sons to grow up to be
president
but they don't want them to become
politicians
in the process."
US
President John F. Kennedy
Navy
"I
can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked
in
this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can
respond
with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the
United
States Navy."
President
John F. Kennedy
Source:1
August 1963, in Bancroft Hall at the U. S. Naval Academy.
New Frontier
We
stand today on the edge of a new frontier. 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....It appeals to our pride, not our
security--it
holds the promise of more sacrifice
instead
of more security.
John
F. Kennedy, Acceptance speech, 7-15-1960
New Generation
"It
is time for a new generation of leadership,
to
cope with new problems and new opportunities.
For
there is a new world to be run."
Nixon
"Do
you know the responsibility I carry?
I'm
the only person between Nixon
and
the White House."
-John
F. Kennedy
Mr.
Nixon, in the last seven days, has called me an
economic
ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest.
I've
just confined myself to calling him a Republician,
but
he says that is getting low.
John
F. Kennedy, 11-5-1960
The
Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is
also
a young man. But his approach is as
old
as McKinley. His party is the party of
the
past. His speeches are generalities
from
Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform,
made
up of left-over Democratic planks,
has
the courage of our old convictions.
Their
pledge is a pledge to the status quo
and
today there can be no status quo.
-John
F. Kennedy
Patriotism
Let
our patriotism be reflected in the creation of
confidence
in one another, rather than in crusades of
suspicion.
Let us prove we think our country great,
by
striving to make it greater.
John
F. Kennedy, 11-18-1961
A
nation reveals itself not only by the men it
produces
but also by the men it honors,
the
men it remembers.
John
F. Kennedy, 10-27-1963
Peace
But
peace does not rest in the charters and covenants
alone.
It lies in the hearts and minds of all
people.
And if it is cast out there, then no act,
no
pact, no treaty, no organization can hope to
preserve
it without the support and whole
hearted
commitment of all people.
So
let us not rest all our hopes on
parchment
and on paper, let us strive to build
peace,
a desire for peace, a willingness to
work
for peace in the hearts and minds of all of
our
people. I believe that we can. I believe the
problems
of human destiny are not beyond the
reach
of human beings.
Peace
is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually
changing opinions, slowly eroding
old
barriers, quietly building new structures."
So
let us perserver. Peace need not be
impracticable--and
war need not be inevitable.
By
defining our goal more clearly, by making it
seem
more manageable and less remote, we can help
all
peoples to see it, to draw hope from it,
and
to move irresistibly towards it.
John
F. Kennedy 1963
Peace
and freedom walk together. In too many of our
cities
today, the peace is not secure because
freedom
is incomplete.
John
F. Kennedy, 6-10-1963
People
The
first requirement of efficiency and economy...
is
highly competent personel.
John
F. Kennedy
Source:Management
Mag, 1987
Poetry
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 his existence. When
power
corrupts, poetry cleanses.
"If
more politicians knew poetry, and more poets
knew
politics, I am convinced the world would be
a
little better place in which to live."
--Sen.
John F. Kennedy, Address at Harvard University, 1956
Politics
In
politics, there are no friends, only allies.
John
F. Kennedy
It
would be premature to ask your support in the next
election
and it would be inaccurate to thank you for
it
in the past.
John
F. Kennedy, speech to the National Industrial
Conference
Board, Washington, DC, 2-13-1961
Mothers
may still want their sons to grow up to be
President,
but according to a famous Gallup poll of
some
years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to
become
politicans in the process.
John
F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage.
My
brother Bob doesn't want to be in government--he
promised
Dad he'd go straight.
John
F. Kennedy
Problems
Our
problems are man-made, therefore they may be
solved
by man. No problem of human destiny is
beyond
human beings.
Poverty
"Acting
on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish
justice
throughout the world, but joined with other
free
nations, we can ... assist the developing
nations
to throw off the yoke of poverty."
If
a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it
cannot save the few who are rich.
John
F. Kennedy 1-20-1963
Political
sovereignty is but a mockery without the
means
of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease.
Self-determination
is but a slogan if the future
holds
no hope.
John
F. Kennedy, Speech to UN, 9-25-1961
There
is inherited wealth in this country and also
inherited
poverty.
John
F. Kennedy, 10-26-1963
A
strong America depends on its cities--America's
glory
and sometmes America's shame.
John
F. Kennedy, State Of Union, 1962
We
will neglect our cities to our peril, for in
neglecting
them we neglect the nation.
John
F. Kennedy, 1-30-1962
Presidential Seal
The
American eagle on the Presidential seal holds in
his
talons both the olive branch of peace and the
arrows
of military might. On the ceiling in the
Presidential
office, constructed many years ago, that
eagle
is facing the arrows of the war on its left.
But
on the new carpet on the floor, reflecting a change
initiated
by President Roosevelt and implemented by
President
Truman immediately after the war, that eagle
is
now facing the olive branch of peace.
And it is
in
that spirit, the spirit of both preparedness and
peace,
that this Nation today is stronger than ever
before.
John
F. Kennedy, 10-19-1963
Rehabilitation of Selective Service Rejectees
"A
young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service
is
not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military
rejects
include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
John
F. Kennedy
Source:Statement
by the President on the Need for Training or
Rehabilitation
of Selective Service Rejectees. September 30th, 1963
Religious Affiliation
I
hope that no American . . . will waste his
franchise
and throw away his vote by voting
either
for me or against me solely on account
of
my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
Restraint
Our
restraint is not inexhaustible.
John
F. Kennedy
Source:April
20, 1961
Revolutions
Those
who make peaceful revolutions impossible
will
make violent revolutions inevitable.
Richness
The
quality of American life must keep pace with
the
quantity of American goods. This country cannot
afford
to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
SEA
"I
really don't know why it is that all of us are
so
committed to the sea, except I think it's because
in
addition to the fact that the sea changes, and
the
light changes, and ships change, it's because
we
all came from the sea. And it is an interesting
biological
fact that all of us have in our veins
the
exact same percentage of salt in our blood
that
exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have
salt
in our blood, our sweat, and in our tears.
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."
--Pres.
John F. Kennedy, Australian Ambassador's Dinner for
the
America's Cup Crews, September 14, 1962, Newport, R.I.
Senior Citizens
This
increase in the life span and the number of our
senior
citizens presents this Nation with increased
opportunities:
the opportunity to draw upon their skill
and
sagacity--and the opportunity to provide the respect
and
recognition they have earned. It is not
enough for
a
great nation merely to have added new years to life--
our
objective must also be to add new life
to
those years.
JFK,
Special Message to Congress 1963.
SPACE
Address
at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort
September 12, 1962
We
set sail on this new sea because there is new
knowledge
to be gained, and new rights to be won,
and
they must be won and used for the progress of
all
people. For space science, like nuclear science
and
all technology, has no conscience of its own.
Whether
it will become a force for good or ill
depends
on man, and only if the United States
occupies
a position of pre-eminence can we help
decide
whether this new ocean will be a sea of
peace
or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not
say
the we should or will go unprotected against
the
hostile misuse of space any more than we go
unprotected
against the hostile use of land
or
sea, but I do say that space can be explored
and
mastered without feeding the fires of war,
without
repeating the mistakes that man has made
in
extending his writ around this globe of
ours.
There
is no strife, no prejudice, no national
conflict
in outer space as yet. Its hazards are
hostile
to us all. Its conquest deserves the best
of
all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful
cooperation
many never come again. But why,
some
say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
And
they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Why,
35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
Why
does Rice play Texas?
We
choose to go to the moon. 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,
because that goal will serve to organize
and
measure 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, and the others, too.
Many
years ago the great British explorer George
Mallory,
who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked
why
did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it
is
there." Well, space is there, and we're going
to
climb it, and the moon and the planets are
there,
and new hopes for knowledge and peace are
there.
And, therefore, as we set sail we ask
God's
blessing on the most hazardous and
dangerous
and greatest adventure on which man has
ever
embarked.
"This
nation has tossed its cap over the wall of
space,
and we have no choice but to follow it."
--Pres.
John F. Kennedy, Remarks at the dedication of the
Aerospace
Medical Health, Center, San Antonio, Texas,
November
21, 1963
Surprise
When
we got into office, the first thing that
surprised
me most was to find that things were just
as
bad as we'd been saying they were. --
John
F. Kennedy, speech in Washington, 1961
This Nation and Its People
"I
am certain that after the dust of centuries has
passed
over our cities, we, too, will be remembered
not
for victories or defeats in battle or in politics
but
for our contributions to the human spirit."
President
John F. Kennedy
Times
Unless
there is the most intimate association between
those
who look to the far horizons and those who deal
with
our daily problems, then...we shall not pass
through
these stormy times with sucess.
John
F. Kennedy.
History
is a relentless master. It has no present,
only
the past rushing toward the future. To try to
hold
fast is to be swept aside.
John
F. Kennedy
Tolerance
"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs.
Rather
it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
John
F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
35th US President
1960
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.F..Kennedy.Quote.1E7A
US Government
It
has recently been suggested that whether I serve one
or
two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at
the
end of that period at what might be called the
awkward
age, too old to begin a new career and too
young
to write my memoirs.
John
F. Kennedy, 2-12-1961
I
think this is the most extraordinary collection of
talent,
of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered
together
at the White House--with the possible
exception
of when Thomas Jerrerson dined alone.
John
F. Kennedy, 4-29-1962
Senators
who go down in defeat in vain defense of a
single
principle will not be on hand to fight for that
or
another principle in the future.
John
F. Kennedy
The
United States is a peaceful nation. And where our
strengh
and determination are clear, our words need
merely
to convey conviction, not belligerence. If we
are
strong, our strengh will speak for itself.
If we
are
weak, words will be of no help.
John
F. Kennedy
Votes
I
have just received the following telegram from
my
generous daddy. It says, 'Dear Jack: Don't buy a
single
vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm
going
to pay for a landslide.'
John
F. Kennedy, Gridiron Dinner, Washington, DC, 1958
WAR
Mankind
must put an end to war or war will
put
an end to mankind.
