John F. Kennedy

Quote: Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: 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 F. Kennedy]

Quote: There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: 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]

Quote: We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. [John F. Kennedy]

Quote: We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first! [John F. Kennedy]

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