John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
1961
“It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.”
Referring to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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1967
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
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“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
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