John F. Kennedy Quotes

“There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.”

“Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

“Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.”

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

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”

“I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office.”

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

“An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.”

“The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”

“In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.”

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

“This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime”

“If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.”

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

“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.”

“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!”

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

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

“The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.”

“We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.”

“Success has many fathers.”

“If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.”

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