John F Kennedy

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