"If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser, in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Presidents of the United StatesDemocratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenatePoliticians from BostonUnited States presidential candidates, 1960
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"Na muci se poznaju junaci."
"A rising tide lifts all boats."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight forβ¦"
"I think it is most appropriate that the President of the United States, whose business place is in Washington, shouldβ¦"
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie β deliberate, contrived and dishonest β but the myth β persistβ¦"
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered togetherβ¦"
"Secondly, what does justice require? In the end, it requires liberty."
"And Prince Bismarck was even more specific. One third, he said, of the students of German universities broke down froβ¦"
"While geography has made us neighbors, tradition has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity hβ¦"