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