John F. Kennedy
46 quotations
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Life is unfair.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.