Quotes by John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to you in life.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner!

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our childrens future. And we are all mortal.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

“They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”