John F. Kennedy

Quotes

• “Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though emba...”
• “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...”
• “The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered...”
• “And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fe...”
• “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnifice...”
• “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnifice...”
• “The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorpo...”
• “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis...”
• “But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together....”
• “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competiti...”
• “The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are ...”
• “And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his new...”
• “It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If...”
• “Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Sovi...”
• “The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or dif...”
• “The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Am...”
• “Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light whic...”
• “I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life wort...”
• “With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land...”
• “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's conce...”
• “Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship...”
• “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generat...”
• “A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely t...”
• “To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of...”
• “Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer ...”
• “Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly buildin...”
• “All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor...”
• “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly buildin...”
• “The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we w...”
• “The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center o...”
• “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the Whit...”
• “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us ...”
• “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of ...”
• “I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our m...”
• “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us ...”
• “The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically oppo...”
• “All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . ...”
• “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame f...”
• “In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air....”
• “There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the fre...”
• “The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision...”
• “I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll ...”
• “I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on th...”
• “Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longe...”
• “I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governin...”
• “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is t...”
• “I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scie...”
• “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificen...”
• “I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientis...”
• “For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present...”