John F. Kennedy
46 quotations
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
Failure has no friends.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.