Quotes

“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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!'” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“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.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy