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If you’re born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you’re born in sin. But if you’re born in socialism, you’re not born in sin.
Jim Jones1931–1978“The Letter Killeth.” Original material reprint. Department of Religious Studies. San Diego State
- Politics
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Cuban Missile Crisis speech
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Politics
- Presidency
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Presidency
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Liberty
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Freedom
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.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Government
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Third State of the Union Address
- Money
And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: “I served in the United States Navy.”
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
- Pride
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address on Civil Rights (1963)
- Justice
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968“Extremism, Left and Right,” pt. 3, (1964)
- Freedom
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Speech on the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Indianapolis (4 April 1968)
- Love
- Race
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac1922–1969On the Road (1957), Part Two, Ch. 3