John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

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

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Failure has no friends.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.