John F. Kennedy Quotes And Sayings

The Greater Our Knowledge Increases The More Our Ignorance Unfolds.

The World Is Very Different Now. For Man Holds In His Mortal Hands The Power To Abolish All Forms Of Human Poverty, And All Forms Of Human Life.

The Goal Of Education Is The Advancement Of Knowledge And The Dissemination Of Truth.

Leadership And Learning Are Indispensable To Each Other.

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.

Mothers All Want Their Sons To Grow Up To Be President, But They Don't Want Them To Become Politicians In The Process.

There Are Risks And Costs To Action. But They Are Far Less Than The Long Range Risks Of Comfortable Inaction.

If Art Is To Nourish The Roots Of Our Culture, Society Must Set The Artist Free To Follow His Vision Wherever It Takes Him.

Too Often We... Enjoy The Comfort Of Opinion Without The Discomfort Of Thought.

Let Us Never Negotiate Out Of Fear. But Let Us Never Fear To Negotiate.

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.

To State The Facts Frankly Is Not To Despair The Future Nor Indict The Past. The Prudent Heir Takes Careful Inventory Of His Legacies And Gives A Faithful Accounting To Those Whom He Owes An Obligation Of Trust.

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!

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.

My Fellow Americans, Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Country.

A Child Miseducated Is A Child Lost.

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.

I Hope That No American Will Waste His Franchise And Throw Away His Vote By Voting Either For Me Or Against Me Solely On Account Of My Religious Affiliation. It Is Not Relevant.

The Great Enemy Of The Truth Is Very Often Not The Lie, Deliberate, Contrived And Dishonest, But The Myth, Persistent, Persuasive And Unrealistic.

Peace Is A Daily, A Weekly, A Monthly Process, Gradually Changing Opinions, Slowly Eroding Old Barriers, Quietly Building New Structures.

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.

Sure It's A Big Job; But I Don't Know Anyone Who Can Do It Better Than I Can.

The Very Word 'Secrecy' Is Repugnant In A Free And Open Society; And We Are As A People Inherently And Historically Opposed To Secret Societies, To Secret Oaths, And To Secret Proceedings.

For Time And The World Do Not Stand Still. Change Is The Law Of Life. And Those Who Look Only To The Past Or The Present Are Certain To Miss The Future.

A Young Man Who Does Not Have What It Takes To Perform Military Service Is Not Likely To Have What It Takes To Make A Living. Today's Military Rejects Include Tomorrow's Hard-core Unemployed.

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.

My Brother Bob Doesn't Want To Be In Government - He Promised Dad He'd Go Straight.

Once You Say You're Going To Settle For Second, That's What Happens To You In Life.

Once You Say You're Going To Settle For Second, That's What Happens To You In Life.

Domestic Policy Can Only Defeat Us; Foreign Policy Can Kill Us.

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.

I Just Received The Following Wire From My Generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't Buy A Single Vote More Than Is Necessary. I'll Be Damned If I'm Going To Pay For A Landslide.

For In The Final Analysis, Our Most Basic Common Link Is That We All Inhabit This Small Planet. We All Breathe The Same Air. We All Cherish Our Children's Futures. And We Are All Mortal.

I Am The Democratic Party's Candidate For President Who Happens Also To Be A Catholic. I Do Not Speak For My Church On Public Matters - And The Church Does Not Speak For Me.

When We Got Into Office, The Thing That Surprised Me Most Was To Find That Things Were Just As Bad As We'd Been Saying They Were.

Mankind Must Put An End To War Before War Puts An End To Mankind.

I Think 'Hail To The Chief' Has A Nice Ring To It.

When Written In Chinese, The Word 'Crisis' Is Composed Of Two Characters. One Represents Danger And The Other Represents Opportunity.

The Courage Of Life Is Often A Less Dramatic Spectacle Than The Courage Of A Final Moment; But It Is No Less A Magnificent Mixture Of Triumph And Tragedy.

Modern Cynics And Skeptics... See No Harm In Paying Those To Whom They Entrust The Minds Of Their Children A Smaller Wage Than Is Paid To Those To Whom They Entrust The Care Of Their Plumbing.

War Will Exist Until That Distant Day When The Conscientious Objector Enjoys The Same Reputation And Prestige That The Warrior Does Today.

The Basic Problems Facing The World Today Are Not Susceptible To A Military Solution.

I Don't Think The Intelligence Reports Are All That Hot. Some Days I Get More Out Of The New York Times.

All Free Men, Wherever They May Live, Are Citizens Of Berlin. And Therefore, As A Free Man, I Take Pride In The Words 'Ich Bin Ein Berliner!'

We Prefer World Law In The Age Of Self-determination To World War In The Age Of Mass Extermination.

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.

The Human Mind Is Our Fundamental Resource.

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.