Top JFK Quotes
- ” Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
- ” The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” – John F. Kennedy
Top Quotes of JFK
Education Quotes by JFK
Fear Quotes by JFK
Freedom Quotes by JFK
Future Quotes by JFK
History Quotes by JFK
Peace Quotes by JFK
Politics Quotes by JFK
JFK Quotes on Courage
War Quotes by JFK
World Quotes by JFK
JFK Quotes on America
Education Quotes by JFK
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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Fear Quotes by JFK
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
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Freedom Quotes by JFK
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!’
John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Future Quotes by JFK
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
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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.
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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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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.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. Kennedy
History Quotes by JFK
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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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.
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
Peace Quotes by JFK
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.
John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor – it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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JFK Quotes on America
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy
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.
John F. Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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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
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
JFK Quotes on Courage
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
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Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
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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 stories of past courage… 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
What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out – not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.
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Politics Quotes by JFK
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
War Quotes by JFK
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.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
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.
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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World Quotes by JFK
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
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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 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
Famous Quotes of JFK
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
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.
John F. Kennedy
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
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I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
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I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
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.
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I’m an idealist without illusions.
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Best Quotes of JFK
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
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
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
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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
All Time Best Quotes of JFK
Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.
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 human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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JFK Favorite Quotes
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
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.
John F. Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.
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