Quotes by John F. Kennedy

It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our childrens future. And we are all m

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagles lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate mans place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of mans own nature.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.