Quotes By John F. Kennedy

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.

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.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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.

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.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

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.

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.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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.