“With your help, and the help of other free men, this crisis can be surmounted. Freedom can prevail and peace can endure.”
1961, Berlin Crisis speech
Context: The steps I have indicated tonight are aimed at avoiding that war. To sum it all up: we seek peace — but we shall not surrender. That is the central meaning of this crisis, and the meaning of your government's policy. With your help, and the help of other free men, this crisis can be surmounted. Freedom can prevail and peace can endure.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John F. Kennedy 469
35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963Related quotes
Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 237
Sunni Hadith
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”
Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1985)
1980s
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without. The free man is one who has won a small and precarious territory from the great mob of his inferiors, and is prepared and ready to defend it and make it support him. All around him are enemies, and where he stands there is no friend. He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight. He has made of himself a sort of god in his little world, and he must face the responsibilities of a god, and the dreadful loneliness.
“I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.”
Source: The Titan's Curse
Italian bishops’ meeting on the Mediterranean. Msgr. Rossolatos (Greece): “The courage of peace through the strength of weakness” (11 February 2020) SIR agency https://www.agensir.it/europa/2020/02/11/italian-bishops-meeting-on-the-mediterranean-msgr-rossolatos-greece-the-courage-of-peace-through-the-strength-of-weakness/
Source: On Coalition Government (1945)
Van Nostrand, Albert D. (December 1948). "The Lomasney Legend". The New England Quarterly. 21 (4): 457. JSTOR 361565 https://www.jstor.org/stable/361565