“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
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 great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light a candle that can guide us through the darkness to a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. — 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
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962] ” — 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
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
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to… — 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
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the… — 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
“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
