John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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.

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

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

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