"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of n...












Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
More John F. Kennedy quotes
"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 submi...
"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
"And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right ...
"Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.
"But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities tod...
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrin...
"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ven...
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be b...
"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength a...