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John F. Kennedy Quotes


Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

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.

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

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

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

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

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

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.