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John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy

35th US president (1917-1963). Youngest elected president and first Catholic in office. He navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis, founded the Peace Corps, and aimed America at the Moon before being assassinated in Dallas.

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Source: Inaugural Address (大統領就任演説、1961年1月20日)Verified

John F. Kennedy's Other Quotes

I am a Berliner.

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

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

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

-- Abraham Lincoln