Famous Quotes

Quotes by John F Kennedy

• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
• It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
• Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
• Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
• My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
• Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
• Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
• Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
• The best road to progress is freedom's road.
• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
• 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.
• The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
• The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
• The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
• The pay is good and I can walk to work.
• The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
• The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
• 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.