John F. Kennedy Quotes And Sayings

Those Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible Will Make Violent Revolution Inevitable.

I Think This Is The Most Extraordinary Collection Of Talent, Of Human Knowledge, That Has Ever Been Gathered At The White House - With The Possible Exception Of When Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone.

The Pay Is Good And I Can Walk To Work.

In A Very Real Sense, It Will Not Be One Man Going To The Moon It Will Be An Entire Nation. For All Of Us Must Work To Put Him There.

Politics Is Like Football; If You See Daylight, Go Through The Hole.

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.

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 Broken By Adversity Nor Demoralized By Success. It Carries The Shield Of Democracy And It Honors The Sword Of Freedom.

We Would Like To Live As We Once Lived, But History Will Not Permit It.

I'm Always Rather Nervous About How You Talk About Women Who Are Active In Politics, Whether They Want To Be Talked About As Women Or As Politicians.

The Path We Have Chosen For The Present Is Full Of Hazards, As All Paths Are. 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.

Change Is The Law Of Life. And Those Who Look Only To The Past Or Present Are Certain To Miss The Future.

Those Who Dare To Fail Miserably Can Achieve Greatly.

Our Growing Softness, Our Increasing Lack Of Physical Fitness, Is A Menace To Our Security.

The Time To Repair The Roof Is When The Sun Is Shining.

Why Should Man's First Flight To The Moon Be A Matter Of National Competition? Why Should The United States And The Soviet Union, In Preparing For Such Expeditions, Become Involved In Immense Duplications Of Research, Construction And Expenditure?

The World Knows That America Will Never Start A War. This Generation Of Americans Has Had Enough Of War And Hate... We Want To Build A World Of Peace Where The Weak Are Secure And The Strong Are Just.

Do You Realize The Responsibility I Carry? I'm The Only Person Standing Between Richard Nixon And The White House.

I Am The Man Who Accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy To Paris, And I Have Enjoyed It.

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 Shrink From This Responsibility - I Welcome It.

We Have The Power To Make This The Best Generation Of Mankind In The History Of The World Or To Make It The Last.

I'm An Idealist Without Illusions.

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.

Efforts And Courage Are Not Enough Without Purpose And Direction.

A Nation Which Has Forgotten The Quality Of Courage Which In The Past Has Been Brought To Public Life Is Not As Likely To Insist Upon Or Regard That Quality In Its Chosen Leaders Today - And In Fact We Have Forgotten.

Unconditional War Can No Longer Lead To Unconditional Victory. It Can No Longer Serve To Settle Disputes... Can No Longer Be Of Concern To Great Powers Alone.

No One Has Been Barred On Account Of His Race From Fighting Or Dying For America, There Are No White Or Colored Signs On The Foxholes Or Graveyards Of Battle.

I Am Sorry To Say That There Is Too Much Point To The Wisecrack That Life Is Extinct On Other Planets Because Their Scientists Were More Advanced Than Ours.

America Has Tossed Its Cap Over The Wall Of Space.

We Are Not Afraid To Entrust The American People With Unpleasant Facts, Foreign Ideas, Alien Philosophies, And Competitive Values. For A Nation That Is Afraid To Let Its People Judge The Truth And Falsehood In An Open Market Is A Nation That Is Afraid Of Its People.

Washington Is A City Of Southern Efficiency And Northern Charm.

In A Time Of Domestic Crisis, Men Of Goodwill And Generosity Should Be Able To Unite Regardless Of Party Or Politics.

Now We Have A Problem In Making Our Power Credible, And Vietnam Is The Place.

The United States Has To Move Very Fast To Even Stand Still.

I Believe In A President Whose Religious Views Are His Own Private Affair, Neither Imposed By Him Upon The Nation Or Imposed By The Nation Upon Him As A Condition To Holding That Office.

It Might Be Said Now That I Have The Best Of Both Worlds. A Harvard Education And A Yale Degree.

The Best Road To Progress Is Freedom's Road.

Geography Has Made Us Neighbors. History Has Made Us Friends. Economics Has Made Us Partners, And Necessity Has Made Us Allies. Those Whom God Has So Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder.

Man Is Still The Most Extraordinary Computer Of All.

Victory Has A Thousand Fathers, But Defeat Is An Orphan.

The Ignorance Of One Voter In A Democracy Impairs The Security Of All.

The Tax On Capital Gains Directly Affects Investment Decisions, The Mobility And Flow Of Risk Capital... The Ease Or Difficulty Experienced By New Ventures In Obtaining Capital, And Thereby The Strength And Potential For Growth In The Economy.

We Cannot Expect That All Nations Will Adopt Like Systems, For Conformity Is The Jailer Of Freedom And The Enemy Of Growth.

Let Us Not Seek The Republican Answer Or The Democratic Answer, But The Right Answer. Let Us Not Seek To Fix The Blame For The Past. Let Us Accept Our Own Responsibility For The Future.

Communism Has Never Come To Power In A Country That Was Not Disrupted By War Or Corruption, Or Both.

A Nation That Is Afraid To Let Its People Judge The Truth And Falsehood In An Open Market Is A Nation That Is Afraid Of Its People.

If A Free Society Cannot Help The Many Who Are Poor, It Cannot Save The Few Who Are Rich.

A Man Does What He Must - In Spite Of Personal Consequences, In Spite Of Obstacles And Dangers And Pressures - And That Is The Basis Of All Human Morality.

Our Progress As A Nation Can Be No Swifter Than Our Progress In Education. The Human Mind Is Our Fundamental Resource.

I Am Not The Catholic Candidate For President. I Am The Democratic Party's Candidate For President, Who Happens Also To Be A Catholic.

The Problems Of The World Cannot Possibly Be Solved By Skeptics Or Cynics Whose Horizons Are Limited By The Obvious Realities. We Need Men Who Can Dream Of Things That Never Were.