Quotes by Kennedy, John F.

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

Kennedy, John F. on peace
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"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."

Kennedy, John F. on peace
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"We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run."

Kennedy, John F. on people   

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning."

Kennedy, John F. on planning
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"When power leads man towards 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."

Kennedy, John F. on poetry and poets   

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

Kennedy, John F. on art   

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

Kennedy, John F. on art   

"In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul."

Kennedy, John F. on art   

"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."

Kennedy, John F. on assassination   

"Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men."

Kennedy, John F. on politics   

"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."

Kennedy, John F. on politics   

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Kennedy, John F. on poverty and the poor
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"As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness."

Kennedy, John F. on president   

"The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true."

Kennedy, John F. on problems   

"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still."

Kennedy, John F. on progress   

"I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project."

Kennedy, John F. on public   

"The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet."

Kennedy, John F. on reality   

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Kennedy, John F. on evolution
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"In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country."

Kennedy, John F. on right and rightness   

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

Kennedy, John F. on risk
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"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."

Kennedy, John F. on sacrifice   

"Failure has no friends."

Kennedy, John F. on success   

"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

Kennedy, John F. on beginning   

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

Kennedy, John F. on certainty
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"The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them."

Kennedy, John F. on challenges   

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

Kennedy, John F. on change
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"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."

Kennedy, John F. on change
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Kennedy, John F. on work   

"The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning."

Kennedy, John F. on world   

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

Kennedy, John F. on time
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

Kennedy, John F. on truth   

"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges."

Kennedy, John F. on twentieth century   

"A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow."

Kennedy, John F. on tyranny   

"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."

Kennedy, John F. on unemployment   

"We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination."

Kennedy, John F. on nations   

"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."

Kennedy, John F. on vision   

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble."

Kennedy, John F. on voting