John Keynes Karl Marx Nathaniel Hawthorne Oliver Holmes P. J. O'Rourke Richard Nixon Robert Frost Thomas Jefferson Voltaire Will Rogers William Gladstone Winston Churchill John F. Kennedy President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood of an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. . . .