John F. Kennedy Quotes
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Quoted in Forbes, June 10, 1991
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Ironically Mandelstam was later sent to a Soviet gulag for writing a poem denouncing Stalin. He died there.
This was utilized (without attribution) to attack the press by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a famous campaign speech in 1931.
Ireton was one of the leaders of the Parliament faction in the English Civil War. He was such an important figure that when King Charles II regained power after Ireton’s death, Charles II was so rabid that he had Ireton’s body dug up, along with that of Cromwell and John Bradshaw, and mutilated as the would have been had they been executed.
This is a variant on Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904}
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
