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

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
- John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy

The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- 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

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.
- John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

I’m an idealist without illusions.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
- John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- 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

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.
- 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

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 the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
- John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to 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

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
- John F. Kennedy