Kennedy Peace Forest

Famous quotes containing the words kennedy, peace and/or forest:

    “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.

    President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)

    “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
    —Bible: New Testament Matthew 10:34.

    “What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)