Quotes By John F. Kennedy

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

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.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.