John F. Kennedy quotes
Born
May 29 1917 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
November 22 1963.
Occupation
President, politician.
John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
– John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
– John F. Kennedy
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.
– John F. Kennedy
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
– John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
– 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
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
– John F. Kennedy
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
– John F. Kennedy
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
– John F. Kennedy
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
– John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
– John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
– John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
– John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
– John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
– 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
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
– John F. Kennedy
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
– 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
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
– John F. Kennedy
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
– 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
The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
– John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
– John F. Kennedy
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
– John F. Kennedy
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
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
– John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
– John F. Kennedy
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
– John F. Kennedy
I’m an idealist without illusions.
– John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
– John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
– John F. Kennedy
Remember that our nation’s first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
– John F. Kennedy
I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
– John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
– John F. Kennedy
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.
– John F. Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
– John F. Kennedy
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
– John F. Kennedy
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
– John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
– John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
– John F. Kennedy