Quotes from John F. Kennedy

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

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.