John F Kennedy Quotes And Sayings

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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.”
– John F. Kennedy

“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.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Libraries should be open to all – except the censor.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Modern 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. Kennedy

“Mr. Nixon in the last seven days has called mean economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I’ve just confined myself to calling him a Republican, but he says that is getting too low. ”
– John F. Kennedy

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
– John F. Kennedy

“My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us…step back from the shadows of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.”
– John F. Kennedy

“No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Now the trumpet summons us again – not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’, a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
– John F. Kennedy

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today – which may well be with us for decades to come – compels us to invest in our nation’s future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.”
– 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

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Several nights ago, I dreamed that the good Lord touched me on the shoulder and said, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. What’s more, you’ll be elected. I told [U.S. Senator] Stu Symington about my dream. ‘Funny thing,’ he said, ‘I had the same dream myself.’ We both told about our dreams to Lyndon Johnson, and Johnson said, ‘That’s funny. For the life of me, I can’t remember tapping either one of you two boys for the job.”
– John F. Kennedy

“So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The best road to progress is freedom‘s road.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.”
– John F. Kennedy

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