Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

—John F. Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress before his presidency. Kennedy...

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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

—John F. Kennedy

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

—John F. Kennedy

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.

—John F. Kennedy

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

—John F. Kennedy

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

—John F. Kennedy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

—George Goethals

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

—Casey Stengel

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

—Adolf Hitler

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man—these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity.… History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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