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John F. Kennedy Quotes about Freedom

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

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

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Peace, Freedom
Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, People, Educated
Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy
Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Men, Rights
1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

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

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Diversity, Unity
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.15, Best Books on

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy
Country, Freedom, 4th Of July
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy
Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy
Education, Freedom, Learning
Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Responsibility, Long
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Rights, Liberty

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Men, Liberty
Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Powerful, Independent

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Perfect, Democracy

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Goal, Victory
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy
Success, Memorial Day, Freedom
Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

John F. Kennedy
Perseverance, Freedom, Character
Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, November 16, 1961.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom
Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.727, Best Books on

All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Integrity, Law
Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi, September 30, 1962.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Citizens, Boast
Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

John F. Kennedy
Freedom, Defense, Pursuit
Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.18, Best Books on