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Quotes by John F Kennedy
- War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- 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 must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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