C. Kennedy Quotes
It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.
... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.