Quotes from John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

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 the success of liberty.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

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

Our treatment of Indians . . . still affects the national consciousness... It seems a basic requirement to study the history of Indian people. Only through this study can we as a nation do what must be done if our treatment of the American Indian is not to be marked down for all time as a national disgrace.

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

The New Frontier I speak of 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 intent to ask of them.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.