JFK es una ópera en tres actos del compositor estadounidense David T. Little, con un libreto en inglés de Royce Vavrek. La historia de la ópera se basa en la última noche de la vida del presidente estadounidense John F. Kennedy, que pasó en el Hotel Texas en Fort Worth, antes de su asesinato en Dallas, el 22 de noviembre de 1963.
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“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
“There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.”
“...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”
“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”
“The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure.”
“What would Lincoln have been without the Civil War? Just another railroad lawyer!”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
