I'm an idealist without illusions. by John F. Kennedy | We Heart Quotes

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I'm an idealist without illusions.

- John F. Kennedy

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Fear

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F. Kennedy

Society People

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

- John F. Kennedy

Enemies Names

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy

Nixon

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

- John F. Kennedy

Men

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

- John F. Kennedy

Man

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

- John F. Kennedy

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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

- Gerald R. Ford

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.

- John F. Kennedy