The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position… — 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 the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
“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
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