"Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.
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“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”
“Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.”
“Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word 'first.' I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first - period.”
More on Leadership
“In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.”
“In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.”
“There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.”
More on History
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.”
“I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.”
“Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.”