A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, by the men it remembers.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
