Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
John F. KennedySo, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
John F. KennedyNot everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
John F. KennedyI believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
John F. KennedyIf you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
John F. KennedyDont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.
John F. Kennedy