Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

“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 mortal.”

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

“We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.”

“Children are poor mens riches”

“Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent”

“Children are the bridge to heaven”

“For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence”

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”

“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”

“If someone wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it”

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the presidents.”

“I dont think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”

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

“In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power”

“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds”

“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”