John F Kennedy- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F Kennedy
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F Kennedy
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.
John F Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F Kennedy
I’m an idealist without illusions.
John F Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F Kennedy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F Kennedy
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F Kennedy
Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.
John F Kennedy
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!
John F Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F Kennedy
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
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 the success of liberty.
John F Kennedy
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.
John F Kennedy
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F Kennedy
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.
John F Kennedy
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.
John F Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F Kennedy
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F Kennedy
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.
John F Kennedy
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.
John F Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F Kennedy