John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them

We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days

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.

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

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

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

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.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government — he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

We must use time as a tool not as a couch

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality.

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

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

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

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.

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.