Quotes By John F. Kennedy

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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

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

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 believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

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.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

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.

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.

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 ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

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.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.