Past Quotes by John F. Kennedy

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

— John F. Kennedy

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

— John F. Kennedy

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

— John F. Kennedy

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

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man…

— John F. Kennedy

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

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the…

— John F. Kennedy

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

— John F. Kennedy

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

— John F. Kennedy

“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

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the…

— John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our…

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the…

— John F. Kennedy

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions…

— John F. Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of…

— John F. Kennedy

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;…

— John F. Kennedy

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we…

— John F. Kennedy

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

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…

— John F. Kennedy

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past…

— John F. Kennedy

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts…

— John F. Kennedy

In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows…

— John F. Kennedy

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

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the…

— John F. Kennedy

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing…

— John F. Kennedy

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The…

— John F. Kennedy