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Antrittsrede, 20. Januar 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Antrittsrede des Präsidenten John Fitzgerald Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Historic-Speeches/Multilingual-Inaugural-Address/German.aspx
Original engl.: "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx
Amtsantrittsrede (1961)
Rede vor dem Schöneberger Rathaus in Berlin, 26. Juni 1963. Quelle: John F. Kennedy: Ich bin ein Berliner (1963) von Englisch Lernen Online http://www.englisch-lernen-online.de/fertigkeiten/hoeren--hoerverstehen/reden/john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner--mit-uebersetzung-john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner/
Original engl.: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man, I take pride in the words: »Ich bin ein Berliner«." - Quelle: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - Remarks at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/oEX2uqSQGEGIdTYgd_JL_Q.aspx
Ich bin ein Berliner (1963)
Rede vor dem Schöneberger Rathaus in Berlin, 26. Juni 1963. Quelle: John F. Kennedy: Ich bin ein Berliner (1963) von Englisch Lernen Online http://www.englisch-lernen-online.de/fertigkeiten/hoeren--hoerverstehen/reden/john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner--mit-uebersetzung-john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner/
Original engl.: "Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."" - Quelle: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - Remarks at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/oEX2uqSQGEGIdTYgd_JL_Q.aspx
Ich bin ein Berliner (1963)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Zitate und Sprüche
Antrittsrede, 20. Januar 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Antrittsrede des Präsidenten John Fitzgerald Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Historic-Speeches/Multilingual-Inaugural-Address/German.aspx
Original engl.: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx
Amtsantrittsrede (1961)
Rede vor dem Schöneberger Rathaus in Berlin, 26. Juni 1963. Quelle: John F. Kennedy: Ich bin ein Berliner (1963) von Englisch Lernen Online http://www.englisch-lernen-online.de/fertigkeiten/hoeren--hoerverstehen/reden/john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner--mit-uebersetzung-john-f-kennedy-ich-bin-ein-berliner/
Original engl.: "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." - Quelle: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - Remarks at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/oEX2uqSQGEGIdTYgd_JL_Q.aspx
Ich bin ein Berliner (1963)
Rede vor der Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen am 25. September 1961 - Quelle: Dominik Geppert: Die Freiheitsglocke, in: Etienne Francois, Hagen Schulze (Hrsg.): Deutsche Erinnerungsorte 2, Beck'sche Schwarze Reihe 2009, S. 249 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=fSmuPKt2TH8C&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=Miteinander
Original engl.: "Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can--and save it we must--and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God." - jfklibrary.org http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/DOPIN64xJUGRKgdHJ9NfgQ.aspx
„Die Freiheit ist unteilbar, und wenn auch nur einer versklavt ist, dann sind alle nicht frei.“
Rede vor dem Schöneberger Rathaus in Berlin, 26. Juni 1963. Quelle: dradio.de http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/kalenderblatt/2147218/
Original engl.: "Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. " - Quelle: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - Remarks at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/oEX2uqSQGEGIdTYgd_JL_Q.aspx
Ich bin ein Berliner (1963)
„Wir müssen dem krieg ein ende setzen, bevor er uns ein ende setzt“
Original: We have to end the war before it ends us
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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
1961, Inaugural Address
Variante: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Kontext: 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.
“One person can make a difference, and every person should try.”
Political scientist Thomas E. Cronin, "Leadership and Democracy", in 'Liberal Education', 1987
Misattributed
Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina (8 February 1963) Audio at JFK Library (01:29 - 01:40) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-161-010.aspx · Text of speech at The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9551
1963
Variante: A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
1962, Address at Independence Hall
Kontext: Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world; we cannot insure its domestic tranquility, or provide for its common defense, or promote its general welfare, or secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But joined with other free nations, we can do all this and more. We can assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty. We can balance our worldwide trade and payments at the highest possible level of growth. We can mount a deterrent powerful enough to deter any aggression. And ultimately we can help to achieve a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion.
“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
1963, Address at Vanderbilt University
Kontext: The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.
Variante: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
“Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.”
1961, UN speech
Kontext: Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind.
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.
Kontext: We meet in an hour of grief and challenge. Dag Hammarskjold is dead. But the United Nations lives. His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the task for which he died is at the top of our agenda. A noble servant of peace is gone. But the quest for peace lies before us.
The problem is not the death of one man — the problem is the life of this organization. It will either grow to meet the challenges of our age, or it will be gone with the wind, without influence, without force, without respect. Were we to let it die, to enfeeble its vigor, to cripple its powers, we would condemn our future. For in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war — and war appeals no longer as a rational alternative. Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind.
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”
by filling three basic gaps in our anti-recession protection.
1962, Second State of the Union Address
Remarks at "Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland (18 February 1958) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 899, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Pre-1960
1961, Address to ANPA
Kontext: Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants" — but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news — for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security — and we intend to do it.
Kennedy's "focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution of human institutions." was quoted by Barack Obama in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
1963, American University speech
Kontext: I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace — based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions — on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace — no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.
“I’m an idealist without illusions.”
Comment about JFK by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as quoted in the Audiobook Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (December 27, 2011) by Caroline Kennedy (Author, Narrator), Michael Beschloss (Author, Narrator), Jacqueline Kennedy (Narrator) & Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Narrator) and published by Hyperion AudioBooks.
Attributed
Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
1963
1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx
Variante: A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
Quelle: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956)
Kontext: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
Kontext: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men — such as the subjects of this book — have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”
Umaru Tanko Al-Makura on 29th July, 2013 at The Official Commissioning Of Ta’al Model School, Lafia By Nigeria's President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan where Umaru Tanko Al-Makura said: " And, because the human mind is our fundamental resource, we are determined to avail our children the opportunity to acquire the best education possible, since a child mis-educated is a child lost. http://www.spyghana.com/speech-delivered-by-his-excellency-umaru-tanko-al-makura/"
Misattributed
1963, Speech at Amherst College
Kontext: When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
1961, Inaugural Address
Kontext: If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
“A rising tide lifts all the boats”
Remarks in Heber Springs, Arkansas, at the Dedication of Greers Ferry Dam (3 October 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9455
Variant: Rising tide lifts all boats.
Remarks in Pueblo, Colorado following Approval of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project (336)" (17 August 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962 -->
1963
Kontext: As this State's income rises, so does the income of Michigan. As the income of Michigan rises, so does the income of the United States. A rising tide lifts all the boats and as Arkansas becomes more prosperous so does the United States and as this section declines so does the United States. So I regard this as an investment by the people of the United States in the United States.
1963, Speech at Amherst College
“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
1963
"Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews (383)" (14 September 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962 -->
1962
Kontext: I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch it — we are going back from whence we came.
