Quotes from John F Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. John F. Kennedy

It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met — obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or make it the last.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe–the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My citizens of the world. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.