Quotes by
John Kennedy |
1917-1963 , American President [1961-1963]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy,(byname JFK) was the 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. more info:
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Quotations
| • | The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. 26 |
| • | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. 14 |
| • | Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. 12 |
| • | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. 11 |
| • | Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. 10 |
| • | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. 10 |
| • | Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. 8 |
| • | Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in. 7 |
| • | When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters: one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. 6 |
| • | Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. 6 |
| • | We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 6 |
| • | Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. 5 |
| • | There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. 5 |
| • | The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. 5 |
| • | Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. (Dante didn’t say that) 4 |
| • | The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. 4 |
| • | A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. 4 |
| • | Ask not what your country can do for you… ask what you can do for your country. 4 |
| • | Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. 4 |
| • | In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | If not us, who? If not now, when? 3 |
| • | Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. 3 |
| • | If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. 3 |
| • | We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. 3 |
| • | This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. 3 |
| • | The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. 3 |
| • | The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. 3 |
| • | In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. 3 |
| • | The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning. 3 |
| • | Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. 3 |
| • | Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. 2 |
| • | I’m an idealist without illusions. 2 |
| • | Divided, there is little we can do. Together, there is little we cannot do. 2 |
| • | The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. 2 |
| • | We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. 2 |
| • | Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. 2 |
| • | Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. 2 |
| • | In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country. 2 |
Personal Stories
| • | 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. 3 |
Non-English Quotes
| • | Ich bin ein Berliner! I am a Berliner! (from a June 26, 1963 speech in West Berlin) 3 |
