Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way… — 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
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President… — 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
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern… — 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
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our… — 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 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
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace,… — 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
