John Fitzgerald Kennedy cytaty strona 10

„Istnieje prawdopodobnie jeden tylko sposób, aby zapobiec przedwczesnemu rozgłaszaniu naszych decyzji, a mianowicie: nie podejmować żadnych decyzji.”

Źródło: National Archives and Records Administration, cyt. za: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 6

„Musimy używać czasu jako narzędzia, nie jako leżanki.”

„Nie pytajcie, co kraj może zrobić dla was; pytajcie, co wy możecie zrobić dla kraju.”

„Łatwo jest wygłaszać ostre przemówienia, szczególnie tym, którzy nie muszą ponosić odpowiedzialności.”

Inne tłumaczenie: Nie pytajmy, co może zrobić dla nas ojczyzna. Pytajmy, co my możemy dla niej uczynić.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. (ang.)
przemówienie inauguracyjne, 20 stycznia 1961

„Nasze problemy zostały stworzone przez ludzi i mogą zostać przez ludzi rozwiązane.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Cytaty o ludziach

„Sama broń nie wystarcza, by utrzymać w świecie pokój. Najważniejsi są ludzie.”

Our problems are manmade – therefore, they can be solved by man. (ang.)
przemówienie na The American University, Waszyngton, 10 czerwca 1963

„Wolność boryka się z licznymi trudnościami, a demokracja nie jest doskonała, ale my nigdy nie musieliśmy wznosić muru, by zatrzymać naszych ludzi.”

„Jestem przekonany, że nasz naród powinien postawić sobie za cel, aby do końca tego dziesięciolecia umieścić człowieka na Księżycu i sprowadzić go bezpiecznie z powrotem na Ziemię.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy cytaty

„Czy jest jakakolwiek dziedzina, w której możemy zamanifestować naszą przewagę? Czy ktoś może mi powiedzieć, jak ich doścignąć? Chętnie wysłucham wszystkich, którzy mają jakiś pomysł, nawet gdyby miał to być woźny. W tej chwili nie ma nic ważniejszego.”

25 maja 1961.
Źródło: Gerard Degroot, Byle nie wyorbitować, „The Daily Telegraph”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Jestem berlińczykiem.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy książka Ich bin ein Berliner

Ich bin ein Berliner. (niem.)
przemówienie skierowane przeciw ZSRR (budowa muru berlińskiego)

„O jakim pokoju myślę? Jakiego pokoju poszukujemy? Nie Pax Americana narzuconego światu przez amerykańską broń. Przemyślmy nasz stosunek do Związku Radzieckiego. Smutne, że aż tyle nas dzieli. Jednak, skoro już musimy się różnić, przynajmniej zróbmy coś, by uczynić świat bezpieczniejszym miejscem dla różnorodności, gdyż w ostatecznym rachunku wiele nas łączy. Wszyscy zamieszkujemy tę małą planetę, oddychamy tym samym powietrzem, zależy nam na przyszłości naszych dzieci i wszyscy jesteśmy śmiertelni.”

na tajnej naradzie w NASA zwołanej tuż po udanym locie orbitalnym Jurija Gagarina w kwietniu 1961.
Źródło: Gerard Degroot, Byle nie wyorbitować, „The Daily Telegraph”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Sprawdzianem naszej godności narodowej będzie to, czy potrafimy przyzwyczaić się do myśli, że rokowania nie są konfliktami, w których chodzi o zwycięstwo lub klęskę.”

przemówienie z czerwca 1963, wygłoszone przed podpisaniem układu ze Związkiem Radzieckim o ograniczeniu prób nuklearnych.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 6

„O wiele lepiej jest spotkać się na szczycie niż nad brzegiem przepaści.”

„Nigdy nie należy przystępować do negocjacji ze strachu i nigdy nie należy się bać negocjować.”

„Mojemu następcy dam radę, żeby uważał na generałów. To, że są wojskowymi, nie oznacza, że ich opinie w sprawach wojskowych mają jakąkolwiek wartość.”

„Ktokolwiek wierzy w sprawiedliwość na świecie, ten jest fałszywie poinformowany.”

po zakończonej klęską próbie inwazji na Kubę.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 6

„Jeżeli wolne społeczeństwo nie jest w stanie pomóc ubogiej większości, to nie ochroni też garstki bogaczy.”

„Wszystkie nasze wysiłki muszą zmierzać do tego, abyśmy dotarli na Księżyc przed Rosjanami. W innym wypadku nie widzę potrzeby wydatkowania takich kwot, bo kosmos jako taki niewiele mnie obchodzi. W grę wchodzą gigantyczne kwoty. Nadwerężyliśmy nasz budżet, a jedynym tego uzasadnieniem jest osiągnięcie rezultatu w takim czasie, o jaki proszę.”

„Do krajów, które mogłyby wystąpić przeciw nam, zwracamy się nie z prośbą, lecz z żądaniem: zacznijmy dążyć do pokoju zanim ciemne moce zniszczenia spuszczone przez naukowców z łańcucha popchnął ludzkość w stronę planowanej lub przypadkowej samozagłady.”

Źródło: Gerard Degroot, Byle nie wyorbitować, „The Daily Telegraph”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Gdybym wiedział, co mnie czeka – głosowałbym na Nixona.”

fragment przemówienia.
Źródło: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 6

„Teraz dźwięk trąbki przyzywa nas ponownie, nie jako zew broni, choć broni nam potrzeba, nie jako zew boju, choć w boju trwamy, lecz jako wezwanie do znoszenia ciężaru długich zmagań w półmroku – rok za rokiem, „weseląc się nadzieją i będąc cierpliwymi w ucisku” – do znoszenia zmagań z powszechnymi wrogami człowieka: tyranią, biedą, chorobą i samą wojną.”

„Nie módlcie się o łatwe życie. Módlcie się, żebyście byli silniejszymi ludźmi.”

Źródło: przemówienie inauguracyjne, 20 stycznia 1961 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/kennedy.asp; cyt. za: Avalon Project – Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library.

„Od tych, którzy wiele dostają, wiele się wymaga.”

„Całe życie wiedziałem, że nie należy polegać na ekspertach. Jak mogłem być tak głupim, żeby im na to pozwolić?”

„Ludzkość musi położyć kres wojnie, bo inaczej wojna położy kres ludzkości.”

All my life I’ve known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead? (ang.)
po inwazji w Zatoce Świń.
Źródło: Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy, 1965

„Zdecydowaliśmy się w ciągu nadchodzących dziesięciu lat polecieć na Księżyc i dokonać innych rzeczy nie dlatego, że są łatwe, ale właśnie dlatego, że są trudne, a przez to zmuszą nas do lepszej organizacji i wykorzystania wszystkich naszych umiejętności (…).”

„Amerykanin lubi mieć do czynienia z wielką łatwizną albo z niebosiężnymi trudnościami; kiedy trzeba być pośrodku, zaczynają się z nim kłopoty.”

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills (…).
przemówienie na Rice University, Houston, 12 września 1962.

„Nie można mówić o wolności na świecie, dopóki choć jeden kraj będzie jej pozbawiony.”

„Czy uważa pan, że powinienem przeznaczyć te miliardy na bardziej przyziemne potrzeby, takie jak służba zdrowia, edukacja czy opieka społeczna? Niestety nie mamy tu wielkiego wyboru. Od tej sprawy zależy prestiż naszego państwa.”

„Mur jest najbardziej oczywistą i widoczną demonstracją fiaska systemu komunistycznego.”

gdy spytano go, dlaczego lot na Księżyc jest taki istotny.
Źródło: Gerard Degroot, Byle nie wyorbitować, „The Daily Telegraph”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Nieprzyjemne prawdy są zawsze lepsze od przyjemnych złudzeń.”

przemówienie skierowane przeciw ZSRR (budowa muru berlińskiego)

„Jedyną niezmienną pewnością jest to, że nic nie jest pewne ani niezmienne.”

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

“Our foreign aid program is not growing in size, it is, on the contrary, smaller now than in previous years. It has had its weaknesses, but we have undertaken to correct them. And the proper way of treating weaknesses is to replace them with strength, not to increase those weaknesses by emasculating essential programs. Dollar for dollar, in or out of government, there is no better form of investment in our national security than our much-abused foreign aid program.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Cytaty po angielsku

“There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.”

1963, Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas

“Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.”

John F. Kennedy książka Ich bin ein Berliner

1963, Ich bin ein Berliner

“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

First State of the Union Address (30 January 1961)
1961, State of the Union

“I stress the strength of our economy because it is essential to the strength of our nation. And what is true in our case is true in the case of other countries. Their strength in the struggle for freedom depends on the strength of their economic and their social progress. We would be badly mistaken to consider their problems in military terms alone. For no amount of arms and armies can help stabilize those governments which are unable or unwilling to achieve social and economic reform and development. Military pacts cannot help nations whose social injustice and economic chaos invite insurgency and penetration and subversion. The most skillful counter-guerrilla efforts cannot succeed where the local population is too caught up in its own misery to be concerned about the advance of communism.”

"Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York (14 August 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library 1960

“The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.”

Źródło: 1961, Speech to Special Joint Session of Congress

“Ninety years from now I have no doubt that Vanderbilt University will still be fulfilling this mission. It will still uphold learning, encourage public service, and teach respect for the law. It will neither turn its back on proven wisdom or turn its face from newborn challenge. It will still pass on to the youth of our land the full meaning of their rights and their responsibilities. And it will still be teaching the truth — the truth that makes us free and will keep us free.”

1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors

“No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can — if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers — offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.”

1963, Address at Vanderbilt University

“Certain other societies may respect the rule of force — we respect the rule of law.”

1963, American University speech

“It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press — to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

1963, Address at Vanderbilt University

“I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.”

Kennedy here references Francis Bacon’s Aphorism 129 of Novum Organum: Again, we should notice the force, effect, and consequences of inventions, which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the ancients; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world; first in literature, then in warfare, and lastly in navigation: and innumerable changes have been thence derived, so that no empire, sect, or star, appears to have exercised a greater power and influence on human affairs than these mechanical discoveries.
1961, Address to ANPA

“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”

Acceptance speech (9 November 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Acceptance-Speech-by-John-F-Kennedy-Hyannis-Armory-Hyannis-Massachusetts-November-9-1960.aspx 1960

“That requires only one kind of defense policy, a policy summed up in a single word "first." I do not mean "first, if," I do not mean "first, but," I do not mean "first, when," but I mean "First, period."”

Speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-036-014.aspx to the Trustees and Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in the White House Movie Theater, 14 November 1961 1961

“We must first bring others to see their own true interests better than they do today.”

Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (6 September 1960)
1960

“Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.”

1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin

“I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession. You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.
If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.”

Speech given at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock, United States of America (3 October 1963); quoted in John F. Kennedy in Quotations: A Topical Dictionary, with Sources (2013), McFarland, entry 1729
1963

“In 1945 a Mississippi sergeant, Jake Lindsey, was honored by an unusual joint session of the Congress. I close therefore, with this appeal to the students of the University, the people who are most concerned. You have a great tradition to uphold, a tradition of honor and courage won on the field of battle and on the gridiron as well as the University campus. You have a new opportunity to show that you are men of patriotism and integrity. For the most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree.”

1961, Address to ANPA

“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.”

Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi (30 September 1962)
1962

“1) You would agree to remove these weapons systems from Cuba under appropriate United Nations observation and supervision; and undertake, with suitable safeguards, to halt the further introduction of such weapons systems into Cuba.”

Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
1961

“My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.”

1962, Second Letter to Nikita Khrushchev

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (6 September 1960)
1960

“The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure.”

1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin

“…there is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.”

Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
1963

“While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that we have far more critical issues to face in the 1960 election; the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers 90 miles off the coast of Florida — the humiliating treatment of our President and Vice President by those who no longer respect our power — the hungry children I saw in West Virginia, the old people who cannot pay their doctor bills, the families forced to give up their farms — an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space. These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues — for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.”

[http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx "President's News Conference (107)" (21 March 1962)
1962

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”

1960, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association

“The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.”

Undated Letter to a Navy friend http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26wwln-safire-t.html; also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx Pre-1960

“We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.”

"Letter to the United States Army" (11 April 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 5, President's Outgoing Executive Correspondence, White House Central Chronological Files, Papers of John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library 1962

“The one major area of these negotiations where the end is in sight, yet where a fresh start is badly needed, is in a treaty to outlaw nuclear tests. The conclusion of such a treaty, so near and yet so far, would check the spiraling arms race in one of its most dangerous areas. It would place the nuclear powers in a position to deal more effectively with one of the greatest hazards which man faces in 1963, the further spread of nuclear arms. It would increase our security — it would decrease the prospects of war. Surely this goal is sufficiently important to require our steady pursuit, yielding neither to the temptation to give up the whole effort nor the temptation to give up our insistence on vital and responsible safeguards.”

Comments on members of the Republican party, in Remarks at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California (2 November 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 914, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library 1960

“It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead…”

1963, American University speech

“The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.”

"Remarks at Los Banos, CA at the Groundbreaking Ceremonies for the San Luis Dam (337)" (18 August 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx 1962