Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile --… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image