John F Kennedy Quotes And Sayings

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“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

“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.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’”
– John F. Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The kind of Presidency in which I believe–a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid depravation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside form quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of the nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose – and it is the test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.”
– John F. Kennedy

“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

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation’s interest.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.”
– John F. Kennedy

“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

“There is always inequity in Life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never are stationed in the Antarctic and some men are stationed in San Francisco. It is very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair. Some people are sick and others well.”
– John F. Kennedy

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
– John F. Kennedy

“This is the kind of America I believe in–and this is the kind I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we may have a “divided loyalty,” that we did “not believe in liberty,” or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened the “freedoms for which our forefathers died.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
– John F. Kennedy

“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Today every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate that day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under the sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. ”
– John F. Kennedy

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
– John F. Kennedy

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