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.
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.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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.
