I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas


John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the...
TED LEVITT
[In Saudi Arabia, the report noted the government's] human rights record remained poor, ... views it...
SAUDI ARABIA
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and huma...
JOHN ASHCROFT
On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics a...
JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom
CALVIN COOLIDGE
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome ev...
RAMEZ NAAM
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wea...
RAMEZ NAAM
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe ...
KEN ROBINSON
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we ...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the meas...
VACLAV HAVEL
As human beings, none of us are perfect and none of us can do everything by ourselves.But how one ma...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our gr...
JOE MOORE
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN
The body is an outstanding source of strength; the mind an incredible source of intelligence; the he...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
ROLLO MAY
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po...
TONY SNOW
Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and ...
, THE HUMAN FACE, 2001
If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the st...
MATTHEW HENRY
It's interesting to see this very complex plant disease as a potential source of medicine for a very...
LARRY KLEINGARTNER
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
As human beings, none of us are perfect and none of us can do everything by ourselves.Everyone has l...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advance...
T.F. HODGE
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON

More John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in b...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public lif...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative in...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who ac...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In its knowledges light, we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time. I am remind...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscientthat we are only...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition,...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single ste...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Well, I am reading more and enjoying it lesslaughterand so on, but I have not complained nor do I pl...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I am deeply touchednot as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Of course, both major parties today seek to serve the national interest. They would do so in order t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral cris...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subje...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some me...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all w...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your co...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go fo...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolutewhere no Catholic prelat...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing n...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Now the trumpet summons us againnot as a call to bear arms, though arms we neednot as a call to batt...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American p...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are d...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with in...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic,...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to ma...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it re...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, me...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some m...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Life is unfair.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks an...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for worl...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicia...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition o...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant da...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you dail...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the ot...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barri...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires o...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wi...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of cour...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or p...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without g...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for dan...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I know there is a God--and I see a storm coming; if He has a place for me, I believe that I am ready...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mis...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembere...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyon...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never c...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opp...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is becau...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesa...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not wh...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after u...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 da...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincer...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be s...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do f...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is m...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant d...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle....
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sug...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignat...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be c...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a sing...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Colum...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recogniti...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single st...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY