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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#first #first lady #horse #i #i do

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#away #flies #horse #i #jack

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brave #broken #carries #child #created

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#activity #basis #body #creative #dynamic

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#characters #chinese #composed #crisis #danger

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#children #cynics #entrust #harm #minds

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#basic #breathe #cherish #children #common

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#commitment #condemns #implies #lack #oppression

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #collection #dined #ever #exception