John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

Politics, Future, Past

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

Life, Change, Future

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

Memorial Day, Country, Ask

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness, Forget, Forgive

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Men, Easy

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

Patriotism, Success, Friend

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

Gratitude, Live, Forget

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

Sea, Ocean, Whether

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

Peace, Revolution, Impossible

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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
John F. Kennedy

Best, Freedom, Progress

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.
John F. Kennedy

God, History, Together

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

Fear, Truth, Judge

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Rich

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Motivational, Happen, Made

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

Fitness, Important, Creative

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

Freedom, Path, High

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Wisdom, Crisis, Two

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Enemy, Growth

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

Future, Children, Same

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

Others, Rather, Tolerance

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

Courage, Enough, Purpose

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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

Care, Children, Minds

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: May 29, 1917

Died: November 22, 1963

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