John F. Kennedy

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• We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
• I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed from our cities, we too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
• For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
  
• 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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
• The world is very different now. For man holds within his mortal hands the power to destroy all forms of human poverty and the power to destroy all forms of human life.
• The basis of effective government is public confidence.