John F. Kennedy Quotes
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.
It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.
Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.