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.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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

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.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

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.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.