John F. Kennedy Quotes (212 Quotes)

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned.

I was impressed that this firm was taking risks. I was impressed that this was a process that had gone on for a few years and had already experienced some pain. And that the process was unfolding in what seemed to me a fairly rational way.

We have the ability to change, we are changing, but we do need time to do it.

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.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

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.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

I think this is something that people will welcome who are not computer-literate. We hope this helps them move checking out their computer further up on the to-do list.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

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.

There will be no (government) bankruptcies in the state of Louisiana, period.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them.

It's the thinking of dinosaurs for anyone to believe that they can steal music after all the education and campaigns that we have had.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I was surprised about how much I looked like him. I've never done a re-creation this will be the first. It's something new for my portfolio.

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.

Our pilots understand that a sound company is the best job and retirement security there is.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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.

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.

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 great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Our language hasn't changed. We're in negotiations, so that's all we're focused on.

This is a significant escalation in our worldwide campaign against illegal file-sharing. People who file-share illegally often claim to be music fans but in fact they are hurting investment in music, breaking the law and risking financial penalties by their actions. There have now been so many campaigns to educate people that file-sharing is wrong and illegal that there is simply no excuse for people to continue.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Last year was the year that the digital music market took shape.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.