John F. Kennedy Quotes

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

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

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

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

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

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.

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

Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Everything changes but change itself.