John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was the thirty-fifth U.S. president, a Democrat, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He previously represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Remarks in Bonn

I pledge you that we will neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear, we shall never fear to negotiate.

Speech to the U.N. General Assembly

So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

American University Commencement

The [National Rifle] Association fills an important role in our national defense effort, and fosters in an active and meaningful fashion the spirit of the Minutemen.

Letter to Franklin Orth

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

March 13, 1962

Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

January 30, 1961

We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents an efficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril.

Cuban Missile Crisis Speech

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Unknown

But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit. On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly.

Francis (Pope)

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

Stacy Trasancos

As we are human, we can’t do what we can’t do; as we’re neurotic, we can’t do what we can.

Mignon McLaughlin

The worst evil is hardness of heart. Those who do not repent, who deliberately remain in their habits of sin, have the the most to fear.

Erasmus

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

Fulton Sheen

Are we so much better than the people of other ages and of other countries, that the same allurements of power and greatness, which led them aside from their duty, will have no influence upon men in our country?

Robert Yates

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Winston Churchill

There may have been . . . some kind of clodhoppers who believed that every legend was true. But we shall be a much stupider kind of clodhoppers if we believe that every legend is legendary.

G. K. Chesterton

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.

Michael Crichton

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Holy Bible

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off.

John Adams

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Thomas Sowell

It’s disingenuous to call something a ‘right’ if you simultaneously demand that people take advantage of their ‘right’ whether they want to or not. That’s not a right, it’s a command. Republics have rights; tyrants have commands.

Scott Bradford

Look at my African American over here!

Donald Trump

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.

Teresa of Calcutta

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. . . . We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

George W. Bush

Duck diplomacy . . . means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.

Unknown

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain