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If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961.
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 29 October 1962, reflecting on the Cuban Missile Crisis to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1960.
What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), Reply upon learning that he and 49 other eminent artists had been invited to John F. Kennedy's inaugural, 1961
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first time since the Spanish Civil War
Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), From the speech President Kennedy was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart

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