Zitat des Tages über John F. Kennedy:
I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Great lives never go out; they go on.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
