Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

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.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

We choose to go to the moon.

What kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

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

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.