John F. Kennedy Quotes (212 Quotes)

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.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

It makes us a very productive place to work. We believe in the individual. If you treat them right they will do good things.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

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.

I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.

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.

We will be playing this New Year's Eve at the American Legion where I first played with my father and several others on New Year's Eve 50 years ago. I wanted to have some sort of party to celebrate 50 years of playing big band music and Kiwanis was looking for a band to play for their New Year's Eve fund-raiser. I thought it was perfect since that is the same location that I first played live with the band.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

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.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

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

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

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We are expecting, hoping and will be asking for federal assistance. We are trying to determine what kind of federal relief we can expect. The municipalities that cannot make their bond payments are going to need help. We are hoping for substantial federal aid.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth

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 hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

When the local people put money in a bank like this, they know that it understands their community and its opportunities. Its loans and activities, in turn, help to further the community's economy.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Apple is going to listen to their customers before they listen to the industry. They have commercial advantage.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

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

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble

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!

She pretended and gave all kinds of stories out over the years, of illness, of this and that, of sweet talking people and making deals. She was just very clever at what she does.

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.

Within the space of 10 weeks, two courts in different continents and hemispheres have given a huge boost to the efforts by music and technology companies to forge a legal online music business.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Outside water usage, including grass, will be permitted on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only.

One person can make a difference and every person should try.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.