Quotes of: John-f-kennedy Keyword

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Leo Strauss

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers

Gil: I'm jealous and I'm trusting. It's cognitive dissonance. F. Scott Fitzgerald talked about it.

Midnight in Paris

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Pericles

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Elizabeth Moon

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

Eugene Cernan

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he ...

Robert McFarlane

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Robert Ballard

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

What It is Like to Go to War

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

What It is Like to Go to War

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

David Petraeus

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

James F. Amos

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lincoln Chafee

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

John Sergeant Wise

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

John Sergeant Wise

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

Joshua Chamberlain