John F. Kennedy quotes

John F. Kennedy

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
Peace Impossible Revolution Will Who
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
Life Change Future Past
"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."
John F. Kennedy
History Future Past Try
"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."
John F. Kennedy
Fitness Body Important Intellectual
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy
Motivational Things Happen Made
"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
You Country Your Ask
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom Knowledge Ignorance More Our
"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."
John F. Kennedy
Success Patriotism Support Liberty
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
Inspirational Gratitude Appreciation
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
John F. Kennedy
Success Victory Defeat Orphan
"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
John F. Kennedy
History Will Like Live
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
Long Action Risks Chance
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom Opportunity Crisis Danger Two
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy
Forgiveness Never Never Forget Forget
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy
Fear Never Us Out
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
John F. Kennedy
Democracy Ignorance Security Voter
"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 F. Kennedy
Sea Back Go Ocean
"A child miseducated is a child lost."
John F. Kennedy
Education Lost Child
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
John F. Kennedy
Future Society Children Air
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy
Great Who Achieve Dare Fail
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
John F. Kennedy
Peace War Only Secure
"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 F. Kennedy
History Long Freedom World
"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."
John F. Kennedy
Education Truth Knowledge Goal
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
Leadership Learning Indispensable
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom Time Sun Repair
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
John F. Kennedy
Comfort Opinion Discomfort Without
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
John F. Kennedy
Tolerance Commitment Others Own
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
John F. Kennedy
World Equality Diversity Safe
"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
Life Change Future Time
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy
Courage Purpose Direction Enough
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John F. Kennedy
Society Rich Free Poor
"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 F. Kennedy
War Freedom Path Never
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy
Growth Freedom Enemy Conformity
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
John F. Kennedy
Education Mind Progress Nation
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy
War End Must Mankind
"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."
John F. Kennedy
Life Man Technology World Power
"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future."
John F. Kennedy
Future Light Darkness Candle
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
John F. Kennedy
Truth Great Lie Enemy
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
John F. Kennedy
God History Man Together
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy
Daily Peace New Process Old
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
John F. Kennedy
Man Computers Extraordinary Most
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
John F. Kennedy
Peace War Time New
"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
John F. Kennedy
Fitness Security Physical Fitness Our
"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 F. Kennedy
Man Power Poetry Arrogance
"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 F. Kennedy
Truth People Fear Nation
"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 F. Kennedy
Vote More Just Going
"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."
John F. Kennedy
Man Problems Destiny Big
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
John F. Kennedy
Parenting Grow Process Want Up
"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 F. Kennedy
Alone Knowledge Talent White

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