John F.Kennedy Quotes:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
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.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
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 submission.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY