Quotes from John F. Kennedy

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

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.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

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

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

If you face a man's job, find a woman!

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

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

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

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.

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

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

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.