John F. Kennedy Quotes
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
- John F. Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy
There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.
- John F. Kennedy
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science.
- John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
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.
- John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
- John F. Kennedy
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
- John F. Kennedy
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
- John F. Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
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.
- John F. Kennedy


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