The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
John F. KennedyWe must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.
John F. KennedyEvery American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.
John F. KennedyThe United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
John F. KennedyAsk not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.
John F. KennedyFor while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jewโ or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you โ until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.
John F. Kennedy