Quotes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

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. (Announcing blockade of Cuba)

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Jangan tanyakan apa yang negara ini berikan kepadamu tapi tanyakan apa yang telah kamu berikan kepada negaramu.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.