Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.”

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“We must use time as a tool not as a couch”

“For of those to whom much is given, much is required”

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to ones own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”

“Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm”

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

“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us”

“The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, Whats mine is mine and whats yours is negotiable.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

“Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.”

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

“I am deeply touched - not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion”

“We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it”

“When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as wed been saying they were.”

“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 you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

“The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter”