Quotes

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A child miseducated is a child lost.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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