"We shall pay any price, bear any..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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“The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.”
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.”
“Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.”
More on Liberty
“The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.”
“The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
“Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.”
More on Freedom
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”
“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.”