John F. Kennedy Quotes
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
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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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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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And as Americans know from our history on our own old frontier, gun battles are caused by outlaws, and not by officers of the peace.
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It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead...
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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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I want to drink a cup of tea to all those Kennedys who went and all those Kennedys who stayed.
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
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In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
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I am convinced that the enactment this year of tax reduction and tax reform overshadows all other domestic problems in this Congress. For we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home. For we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home.
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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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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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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
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I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
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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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
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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.
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.