John F. Kennedy Quotes

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

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

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.