Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

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

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.