Authors:

John F. Kennedy Quotes - Page 24

All Quotes 4th Of July Achievement Adversity Appreciation Army Art Atheism Attitude Balance Blame Bravery Brotherhood Business Challenges Change Character Children Choices Church Civility Cold War Commitment Community Conspiracy Country Courage Creativity Dedication Defeat Democracy Destiny Determination Diplomacy Discipline Diversity Doubt Earth Economy Education Effort Encouragement Energy Excellence Exercise Failing Farming Fate Fear Fighting Fitness Football Foreign Policy Freedom Funny Future Generosity Genius Giving Greatness Greek Growth Hate Heart History Home Honor Hope House Humanity Ignorance Immigration Independence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Journey Judgement Justice Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Liberty Life Loyalty Lying Memorial Day Military Money Moon Motivation Motivational National Security Navy Nuclear Weapons Office Opportunity Optimism Past Patriotism Peace Physical Fitness Police Politics Positive Poverty Power Pride Problem Solving Progress Prosperity Purpose Quality Reading Reality Religion Responsibility Revolution Risk Running Sacrifice Sailing School Science Sincerity Soul Sports Strength Struggle Success Survival Talent Teaching Technology Time Today Tolerance Tradition Trust Truth Tyranny Understanding Unity Victory Vision Voting Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Welfare Wilderness Winning Wisdom Work Writing
Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

John F. Kennedy
Running, Brother, Presidential
"The Remarkable Kennedys". Book by Joe McCarthy, p. 114, 1960.

Peace is a process, a way of solving problems

John F. Kennedy
Way, Problem, Problem Solving
American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

John F. Kennedy
Powerful, Men, Self
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Oath Of Office, Religion
"To the New Frontier". www.cnn.com. July 25, 1960.

I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, '2, and '3, they will be outnumbering us in missiles.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Moving, Thinking

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

John F. Kennedy
Jobs, Presidential, New Job

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

John F. Kennedy
Water, Voting, Towers

I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.

John F. Kennedy
Agency, Health Education, Equal Pay
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

John F. Kennedy
Daddy, Wire, Politics
Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

John F. Kennedy
Jobs, Work, Government
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.264, Best Books on

I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Taken, Risk
Remarks at the Presentation of NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 8, 1961.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy
Independent, Past, Men
John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

John F. Kennedy
Airplane, Airports, People

I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

John F. Kennedy
Religious, Atheism, President
Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

John F. Kennedy
War, Fate, Thinking
Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, October 13, 1960.

'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

John F. Kennedy
Army, Fighting, Imagination
"Letter to the United States Army". April 11, 1962.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, Moon, Years
Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

John F. Kennedy
Intelligent, Generations, National Parks

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

John F. Kennedy
Land, Southern, Rising
Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

John F. Kennedy
Disappointment, Differences, Issues

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

John F. Kennedy
Gay, Rights, Today
Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, Looks, World
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.23, Best Books on

If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

John F. Kennedy
Dwarves, Long, Accomplishment

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

John F. Kennedy
Israel, Presidential, Adherence

We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

John F. Kennedy
Acceptance, Self, Israel