Authors:

John F. Kennedy Quotes - Page 7

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
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.

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.

John F. Kennedy
Science, Technology, Men
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

John F. Kennedy
Responsibility, Political, Citizens

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

John F. Kennedy
Presidential, Atheism, Church

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy
Moon, Challenges, Chill
Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

John F. Kennedy
Kindness, Believe, Heart

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy
Peace, Military, War
"John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

John F. Kennedy
Ethical Standards, Government, Political
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.326, Best Books on

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

John F. Kennedy
Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

John F. Kennedy
Inspiring, Equality, Men
Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic
Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

John F. Kennedy
Rights, Way, Tradition

Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

John F. Kennedy
Block, Cities, People

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy
Greatness, Men, Use
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.816, Best Books on

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

John F. Kennedy
People, Effort, Politics
"Would Democrats embrace JFK now?" by Jeff Jacoby, www.bostonglobe.com. October 20, 2013.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

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

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

John F. Kennedy
Cities, Negotiation, Mines

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

John F. Kennedy
War, Justice, Poverty

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Strong, Thinking

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Retail, Pay
John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

John F. Kennedy
National Security, Threat, Ufo

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

John F. Kennedy
Achievement, Effort, Democracy

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy
Men, Issues, Rights
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

John F. Kennedy
Money, Mean, Opportunity

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

John F. Kennedy
Presidential, Promise, Better Life
Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.173, Best Books on

If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy
Running, Religious, Lying