Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Race has no place in American life or law.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.

Failure has no friends.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Success has many fathers.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my