John F. Kennedy
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. KennedyPolitics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. KennedyThe trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.
John F. KennedyThe ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. KennedyModern 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.
John F. KennedyWhen we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. KennedyThere are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. KennedyAnd so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. KennedyThere are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. KennedyNow I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. KennedyWe 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. KennedyThe great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
John F. KennedyFor without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
John F. KennedyIt's easy, they sank my boat.
John F. KennedyThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyI believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. KennedyI think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. KennedyWho can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. KennedyWe believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. KennedyThe 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. KennedyLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. KennedyWe set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. KennedyThe 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 F. KennedyA 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 F. KennedyI am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy