512 Inspiring Quotes by John F. Kennedy

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war? But we have no more urgent task.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy: "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

It was like dealing with Dad-- all give and no take.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive, always growing, always unfinished.

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

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Jika politik itu kotor, puisi akan membersihkannya. Jika politik bengkok, sastra akan meluruskannya.

Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger -- but recognize the opportunity.

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.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

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

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

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

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights -- even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

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

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

It is when the politician loves neither the public good nor himself, or when his love for himself is limited and is satisfied by the trappings of office, that the public interest is badly served.

So, let us not be blind to our differences- but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

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

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

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.

I know there is a God -- I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it -- if he has a place then I am ready -- we see the hand.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons -- new and uncertain nations -- new pressures of population and deprivation.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

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 president's.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Don't ask 'Why,' ask instead, 'Why not.'

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion -- but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income.

It is no contradiction -- the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction of individual income tax rates.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

The stories of past courage can define that ingredient- they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot provide courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high -- to permit the customary passions of political debate.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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

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

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth -- but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

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

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes -- one for peace and one for science.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish -- where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today -- and in fact we have forgotten.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it
successful.

I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome -- and I'm not convinced of these -- they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

Agriculture is one of our best dollar earners. The balance of trade in our favor in agriculture is a tremendous source of dollars-- and therefore gold--to this country at a very important time.

Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.

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

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960's -- a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils -- a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

Race has no place in American life or law.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder.

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health -- mental and physical vigor -- go hand in hand.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime.

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

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

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

Children are the world's most valuable resource
and its best hope for the future.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

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

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

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

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable -- and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men -- brave men -- will make it so.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

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

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

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

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose -- and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

The tremendous increase in productivity in American farms is really the most astonishing phenomenon in the free world.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

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

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

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

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

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.

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out -- not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past -- let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

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

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow -- and a community without law is but a shell.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of
the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new
ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met -- obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

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.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.

Immigration policy should be
generous; it should be fair; it should
be flexible. With such a policy we
can turn to the world, and to our own
past, with clean hands and a clear
conscience.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The people who line on our farms make it possible for this country to progress as it has.

A strong America...depends on its farms and natural resources.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

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

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.