This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.
Tag: John F Kennedy
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Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? — John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
If I am to die, this is the week for it. — John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.
If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. — John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962.
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. — (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.