He was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. He was the first president to reach for the moon, through the nation’s space programs. He also was the first president since Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) with whom youth could identify. He made the nation see itself with new eyes.
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. His assassination shocked the world.
(1917 – 1963)
– John F. Kennedy Quotes –
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
~ 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
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.
~ John F. Kennedy
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
~ John F. Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost.
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ 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
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
~ 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
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ 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
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
~ John F. Kennedy
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
~ John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
~ John F. Kennedy
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
~ John F. Kennedy
I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
~ John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~ John F. Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
~ John F. Kennedy
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
~ John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
~ John F. Kennedy
I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.
~ John F. Kennedy
I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
~ John F. Kennedy
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ John F. Kennedy
If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
~ John F. Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
~ John F. Kennedy
