John F. Kennedy Quotes
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We live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.
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America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
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'O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.'
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Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
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I hope that your Government will refrain from any action which would widen or deepen this already grave crisis and that we can agree to resume the path of peaceful negotiation.
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I want to drink a cup of tea to all those Kennedys who went and all those Kennedys who stayed.
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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.
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In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
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This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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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.
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There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.
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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.
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For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
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Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
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Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was 'civis Romanus sum.' Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
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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.
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.