There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve. — 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
Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let… — 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
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
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity… — 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
The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives… — 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
What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women… — 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
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
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension,… — 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
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
“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
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — 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
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to 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