C. Kennedy Quotes

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

I can read your body language like a conversation

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Love of books is the best of all.

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.