John F. Kennedy
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.Collection: Power
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.Collection: Graduation
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Patriotism
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!'Collection: Men
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.Collection: Parenting
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.Collection: Time
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.Collection: God
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.Collection: Success
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.Collection: Motivational
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.Collection: Memorial
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.Collection: Education
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.Collection: Forgiveness
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.Collection: Future
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.Collection: Inspirational
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Fitness
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.Collection: Fitness
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.Collection: Leadership
The pay is good and I can walk to work.Collection: 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.Collection: Trust
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.Collection: Knowledge
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.Collection: Politics
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.Collection: Future
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.Collection: Great
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.Collection: Knowledge
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.Collection: Courage
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?Collection: Space
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.Collection: Truth
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.Collection: Hope
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.Collection: Computers
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.Collection: Freedom
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.Collection: Peace
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Science
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.Collection: Wisdom
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Freedom
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Men
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.Collection: Future
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: War
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.Collection: Life
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.Collection: Time
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.Collection: Space
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.Collection: History
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.Collection: History
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.Collection: Chance