Daily quote |
John F. Kennedy (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. |