We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of… — 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
If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an… — 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… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — 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
