John F. Kennedy Quotes

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss th...

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barri...

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and ...

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burde...

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did t...

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not see...

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is c...

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military...

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is...

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and fr...

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is...

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more t...

When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of hi...

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Change is the law of life.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of ...

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

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

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of...

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, eith...

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been pas...

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

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

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Ti...

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can s...

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take p...

Everything changes but change itself.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States ...

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

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most...

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostil...

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks an...

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes ...

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they wa...

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or ...

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of h...

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...

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

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And ne...

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. I...