John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

Men, Cannot, Problems

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
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

Person, Between, Realize

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

Freedom, Enemy, Cannot

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

City, Washington, Charm

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy

America, Space, Wall

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy

Mind, Human, Resource

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy

Time, Tool, Couch

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

Bad, Saying, Find

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy

Graduation, Education, Best

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.
John F. Kennedy

Politics, Women, Talk

The pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F. Kennedy

Work, Good, Walk

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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

Human, May, Destiny

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

Paris, Enjoyed, Kennedy

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
John F. Kennedy

Times, Days, Hot

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy

Stand, Move, United

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Problem, Place

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

Work, Real, Him

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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

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.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Crazy, Give

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.
John F. Kennedy

Science, Together, Stars

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Single, Vote, Pay

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

Technology, Life, Sorry

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

Peace, Time, War

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: May 29, 1917

Died: November 22, 1963

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