Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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