We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Quote by John F Kennedy

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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist...

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist...

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past....

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past....

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together...

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together...

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by...

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by...

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history...

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history...

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long...

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long...

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or...

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or...

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or...

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or...

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for...

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for...

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and...

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and...

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Et every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay...

Et every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay...

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I...

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I...

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.