And is not peace, in the last analyses, basically a matter of human rights? The right to live out our lives without fear of devastation? The right to breathe air as nature provided it? The right of future generations to a healthy existence?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
Our purpose is not to buy friends or hire allies. Our purpose is to defeat poverty… our goal is to again influence history instead of merely observing it.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world – or the last.
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.
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent… War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
So, let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the meant by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
