John Fitzgerald Kennedy quote: "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."

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

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

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

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of nationa...
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

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.

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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.

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