I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — 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
I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant,… — 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