Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.

If we fail, then freedom fails.

Hope and fear seemed blended in every face, instantaneously alternating, some with revengeful hate…others with lighted hope.

We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.