Famous Quotes

Quotes by John F Kennedy

• 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.
• The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
• There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
• There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
• Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
• Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.