Quotes by John F. Kennedy

About John F. Kennedy:

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Civil Rights Movement, and increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War all took place during his presidency.
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For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instea...

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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not becau...

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One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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We need men who can dream of things that never were.

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Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

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

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

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It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself." [ , November 28, 1961]

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But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, America...

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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (...

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And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independen...

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

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We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

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Let Us Be Grateful Today we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they posse...

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We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

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Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

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This nation was founded by many 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. -John F. Kennedy

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

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The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of inte...

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There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no ...

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn F. Kennedy
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 35th president of the United States
  • AliasesJFK; John Kennedy; Jack Kennedy; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; JF Kennedy; John F. Kennedy
  • BornMay 29, 1917
  • DiedNovember 22, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Officer
  • AwardsNavy And Marine Corps Medal; Purple Heart; American Defense Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Pacem In Terris Award; Grand Officer Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Pulitzer Prize For Biography Or Autobiography; Eleanor Roosevelt Award For Human Rights