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John F. Kennedy (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. 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. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. |