John F. Kennedy Quotes

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

It takes two to make peace.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.