John F. Kennedy Quotes
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. (special address to Congress, May 25, 1961)
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors." (On U.S. and Soviet joint scientific ventures, spoken during his inaugural address, 20 January 1961)
"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." (State of the Union address, 30 January, 1961)
"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".
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
"Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was `Civis Romanus sum`. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is `Ich bin ein Berliner.` All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words `Ich bin ein Berliner!`" (West Berlin speech, June 26, 1963)
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics but for our contributions to the human spirit.
(Talking about the space program) "We do this and other things not because they are easy but because they are hard."
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
"(Richard Nixon)`s a conservative... and if he became President, we could expect Republican policy would switch to the right.... He is a filthy, lying son-of-a-bitch, and a very dangerous man.
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, `In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!`
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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.
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word `crisis.` One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
(Richard Nixon)`s a conservative... and if he became President, we could expect Republican policy would switch to the right.... He is a filthy, lying son-of-a-bitch, and a very dangerous man.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we`d been saying they were.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
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.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
My brother Bob doesn`t want to be in government - he promised Dad he`d go straight.
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.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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.
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