Kennedy Quotes

This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

I am a woman above everything else.

What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

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.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

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.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

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.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

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

You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord.

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

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.