We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. — 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
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State…And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is… — 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… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
