My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But… — 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
We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not 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 day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
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 to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
