The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — 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
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize 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
