John F. Kennedy Quotes

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the f

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Change is the law of life.

There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.

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.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.