“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life. — 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
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build… — 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
In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because… — 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 courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less… — 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