Quotes By 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.

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 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.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

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 United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.