The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — 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 day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
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 to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
