Quote by John F. Kennedy (about Poetry, Power, Poems, Arroganz)

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Revolution

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Future Change

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Leaders

Let every nation know... 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.

John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address

USA

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Robert F. Kennedy

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Robert F. Kennedy

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Robert F. Kennedy

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Future Yesterday

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson - signing the Wilderness Act on Sept 3, 1964

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Rose Kennedy

Scars Criminal Minds Sad Quotes

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

Rose Kennedy

Helping

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Rose Kennedy

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

Jackie Kennedy

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

Weddings

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Jackie Kennedy

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

Pierre Salinger

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Pierre Salinger

Dallas

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Pierre Salinger

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Pierre Salinger

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Helen Thomas

Journalism

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

Helen Thomas

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Helen Thomas

Jimmy Carter

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

Helen Thomas

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Earl Warren

Police

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Earl Warren

Law Morality

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Earl Warren

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

Earl Warren

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Love

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Sarcasm

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Experience Past

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Writing

I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for President of the United States.

RFK Jr. - Oktober 2023

There is an argument that COVID-19 is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately.

RFK Jr. - Juli 2023

I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.

RFK Jr.

Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacified to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production -- which subjects animals to a life of torture -- has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

RFK Jr.

Dante: "[seeing a Confederate flag] What? Are you serious?"
Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2022

Texas

The stars at night, are big and bright,
deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

Texas

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

You can leave Dallas, but it will never leave you.

Dallas

As bright as the Dallas sky, she always holds her head up high.

Dallas

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W. S. Merwin

Poetry

Quote by John F. Kennedy (about Poetry, Power, Poems, Arroganz)

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