John F. Kennedy Quotes

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.

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 future. And we are all mortal.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed – and no republic can survive.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

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