John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.Collection: Patriotism
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.Collection: Intelligence
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Truth
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.Collection: Dad
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Freedom
The best road to progress is freedom's road.Collection: Freedom
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.Collection: Equality
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.Collection: War
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.Collection: Men
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.Collection: Power
A child miseducated is a child lost.Collection: Education
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.Collection: War
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.Collection: Society
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Courage
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.Collection: Men
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.Collection: Power
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.Collection: Life
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Politics
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.Collection: Fear
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.Collection: Society
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.Collection: Freedom
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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.
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.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
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.
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
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.
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.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.