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Dwight D. EisenhowerPolitics 2. The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. 3. A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. 4. A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. 5. There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. 6. The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar. 7. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. 8. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. 9. I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. 10. I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. 11. Politics makes strange bed-fellows. 12. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. 13. He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. 14. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. 15. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. 16. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. 17. Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. 18. Politics is not an exact science. 19. The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take. 20. Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. 21. Politics is the art of the possible. 22. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. 23. Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. 24. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. Government 26. Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. 27. The government is becoming the family of last resort. 28. The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. 29. The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. 30. In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. 31. He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor. 32. The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. 33. Good government is no substitute for self-government. 34. All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. 35. Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. 36. A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. 37. A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter. 38. Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ... 39. Government is a kind of legalized pillage. 40. That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. 41. Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. 42. My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. 43. You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. 44. Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? 45. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. 46. Every country has the government it deserves. 47. You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. 48. The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. 49. Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. 50. The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. 51. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. 52. Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. 53. The government is us; we are the government, you and I. 54. The true art of government consists in not governing too much. 55. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. 56. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 57. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. Economy 59. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. 60. What this country needs is a good five-cent Nickel. 61. It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more. 62. Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. 63. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair." 64. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. 65. Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. 66. He who will not economize will have to agonize. 67. Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. 68. A penny saved is two pence clear, 69. I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the 70. Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. 71. The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength. 72. Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest. 73. Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. 74. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee. 75. The market...puts an almost irresistible pressure on every activity to justify itself in the only terms it recognizes: to become a business proposition, to pay its own way, to show black ink on the bottom line. It turns news into entertainment, schol 76. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. Power 77. Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." 78. Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. 79. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. 80. We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum 81. Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. 82. Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. 83. The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. 84. A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. 85. There is no knowledge that is not power. 86. We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. 87. The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. 88. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. 89. I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. 90. In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. 91. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. 92. We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. President 1. The White House is the finest prison in the world. 2. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. 3. The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ... 4. President means chief servant. 5. My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it. 6. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. 7. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. Nation 93. A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed. 94. Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. 95. A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world. 96. No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. 97. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. 98. A nation never falls but by suicide. 99. A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. Nationalism 100. We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership. 101. There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization. 102. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. 103. The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism. 104. Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
War 2. Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. 3. A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. 4. The next World War will be fought with stones. 5. War is the science of destruction. 6. The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. 7. War is hell. 8. War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. 9. I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. 10. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. 11. When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. 12. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. 13. I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. 14. I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. 15. Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. 16. How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. 17. The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. 18. Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. 19. It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it. 20. The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. 21. Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. 22. In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention. 23. There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come. 24. War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. 25. War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. 26. We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us. 27. All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. 28. Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. 29. The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. 30. Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. 31. There was never a good war, or a bad peace. 32. I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. 33. There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. 34. No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. 35. If the B-2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them. Diplomacy 36. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. 37. Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war. 38. International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one. 39. Diplomacy: lying in state. 40. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. 41. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. 42. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. 43. Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. 44. A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. 45. Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. 46. A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. 47. I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget. 48. This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims. 49. A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. 50. American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. 51. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. 52. The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. 53. A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. 54. ... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Dale Carnegie Carnegie (1888-1955), born in Maryville, Missouri, started out as a travelling salesman. He began teaching public speaking at a New York YMCA in 1912. His book Art of Public Speaking was published in 1915. He became a well known public speaker, and a pioneer in personality development, eventually teaching private courses and creating a chain of schools. He is perhaps best known for his 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People, which has sold over 10 million copies in 30 languages. 1. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? 2. First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. 3. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. 4. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore. 5. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. 6. There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. 7. If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. 8. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. 9. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. 10. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. 11. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. 12. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), was an author, orator, statesman, member of Parliment, cabinet secretary, and the British Prime Minister who lead England through the trying years of World War II. His inspirational speaking held his country together through the 'blitz' of German bombardment, while his negotiating skills held together the shaky alliance between the US and Russia. After the war, he coined the phrase 'iron curtain' to describe Soviet control of eastern Europe. Churchill was knighted for his service and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his book The Second World War. 1. The price of greatness is responsibility. 2. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. 3. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught 4. Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. 5. He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. 6. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 7. I have never accepted what many people have kindly said—namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. - on his 80th birthday, address to Parliament 11/30/54 8. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. 9. If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. 10. No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. 11. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 12. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack. 13. War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. 14. Eating words has never given me indigestion. 15. Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. 16. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 17. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. 18. Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. Albert Einstein Einstein (1879-1955), born in Ulm, Germany, was perhaps the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. While teaching at a Swiss university, Einstein worked as a patent clerk in Berne and published six important papers in physics. His work contributed greatly to the understanding of matter and energy, and proposed the now famous relationship between mass and energy, E=Mc2. He is perhaps best known for his Theory of Relativity. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his work on the Photoelectric Effect. Leaving Nazi Germany in 1933 to escape increasing anti-semitism, Einstein accepted an invitation to the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, New Jersey, where he spent the rest of his life. Although a pacifist, he was instrumental in convincing President Roosevelt to pursue atomic weapons to hasten the end of World War II. (Einstein is perhaps the most quoted figure on the internet) 1. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. 2. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. 3. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. 4. An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. 5. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 6. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - from Life Magazine, 1/9/50 7. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. 8. The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - from Living Philosophies, 1931 9. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. 10. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. 11. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. 12. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 13. If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Recalled on his death 18 Apr 55 14. A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower (1890-1969) was born in Denison, Texas. He graduated from West Point in 1915, became a captain during World War I, and served under General Douglas MacArthur in the 1930's. After US entry into World War II he was selected as commander of US forces in Europe, and led invasions of North Africa and Italy. He planned and led the Allied invasion of Europe. After the war he succeeded General George C. Marshall as Army Chief of Staff, then retired to become president of Columbia University. In 1951 he returned to service as supreme commander of NATO, and in 1952 'Ike' ran for election and became the 34th US President. 1. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. 2. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. 3. Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. - from his Inaugural address 1/20/53 4. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.- from an address at Peoria, IL 9/25/56 5. The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. 6. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 7. The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. - 3/17/54 8. Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.- from a Presidential campaign speech, Time Magazine, 10/6/52 9. Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. 10. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. - from an address on the first observance of Law Day, 5/5/58 11. I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? 12. Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. - from his State of the Union address 1/12/61 13. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - from an address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 14. The sergeant is the Army. Henry Ford Ford (1863 - 1947). born near Dearborn, Michigan, was an American industrialist without equal. After starting work as a machinist, and becoming chief engineer at Thomas Edison's Edison Illuminating Co., he went on to found the Ford Motor Companyin 1903. While he was not the first to invent an automobile, Ford was the first to make use of assembly lines - allowing cars to be mass produced at affordable prices. Over 15 million of his original "Model T" cars were sold, and the industry he created has had a pronounced effect on the face of the planet. 1. History is more or less bunk. 2. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. 3. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. 4. Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right. 5. It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. 6. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 7. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. 8. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. 9. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. 10. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. 11. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. 12. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Benjamin Franklin Franklin (1706-1790), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American author, printer, inventor, scientist, publisher, printer, and diplomat. He was truly a man of many talents. Franklin was known for his wit and humor, much of which was published inPoor Richard's Almanac, and for his proof that lightning was a form of electricity by experimenting with a kite in a thunderstorm. He played a pivotal role in the revolutionary and formative years of the United States. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, represented the US in France during the war, and was involved in negotiating the peace with Britain in 1781. He was a stabilizing figure at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Franklin founded the world's first public fire department, the first public lending library, and what later became the University of Pennsylvania. 1. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. 2. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. 3. The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. 4. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. 5. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship. 6. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed. 7. Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it. 8. Creditors have better memories than debtors. 9. He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. 10. If a man could have half his wishes he could double his troubles. 11. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 12. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. 13. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson (1743-1826), born in Goochland, Virginia, was a philosopher, architect, statesman, and third president of the United States. He also served as governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, and vice president. Jefferson is best known for being the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and for the Louisiana purchase, which doubled the size of the country. He spent his years after the presidency establishing the University of Virginia. 1. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 2. Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty. 3. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. 4. Information is the currency of democracy. 5. The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. 6. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. 7. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. 8. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 9. Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. 10. It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. John F. Kennedy While it was brief, Kennedy's (1917-1963) time on the world stage as US President captivated the nation, and in some ways the world, as none other ever has. 1. It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. (July 4, 1960) 2. The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises--it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them. 3. For those to whom much is given, much is required. (Jan 9, 1961) 4. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. 5. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) 6. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) 7. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) 8. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (Address to Nobel Prizewinners, 4/62) 9. Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case. (June 12, 1963) Date: 2015-12-24; view: 782
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