John F. Kennedy Quotes

1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
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“Failure has no friends.”
Success
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”
Children
“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
Mind
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
Enemies
“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
Computers
“For of those to whom much is given, much is required.”
Giving
“The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.”
Voting
“The basis of effective government if public confidence.”
Government
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.”
Planning
“You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.”
Assassination
“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”
Competition
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
Conformity
“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”
Progress
“A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”
Tyranny
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
Cities and City Life
“The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.”
Freedom
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
Effort
“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.”
Reality
“Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.”
Fear
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”
Wealth
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
Voting
“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
Knowledge
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
Life and Living
“We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.”
People
“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.”
Certainty
“In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.”
Arts and Artists
“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”
Peace
“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.”
Optimism