John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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 this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all'”except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

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

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

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world`s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What`s mine is mine and what`s yours is negotiable."

We choose to go...not because (it is) easy, but because (it is) hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.