John F Kennedy Quotes

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

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, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. 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.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Change is the law of life.

There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

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.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.