Torby MacDonald: How would you choose to die? Kennedy: (pausing) Oh, a gun. You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.
Our arms will never be used to strike the first blow in any attack.
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art – this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.
And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent and omniscient – that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population -that we cannot impose our will on the other 94 percent of mankind -that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity -and that there cannot be an […]
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will “talk sense to the American people.” But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And to the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing […]
