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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

- John F. Kennedy

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Peace Fact

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

- John F. Kennedy

Men Work

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.

- John F. Kennedy

Disease Science

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

- 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

Want Life

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

- John F. Kennedy

Education Now

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

- 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