No one has been barred on account of his... by John F. Kennedy

President America Navy Cold War Assassination

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

- John F. Kennedy

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Time

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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Military Today World

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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I'm an idealist without illusions.

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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Party

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

- John F. Kennedy

Peace Time

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

- John F. Kennedy

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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.

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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.

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