Quotes About Responsibility

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

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.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

For, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'holds office'; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

It is when the politician loves neither the public good nor himself, or when his love for himself is limited and is satisfied by the trappings of office, that the public interest is badly served.

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

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. (20 January 1961).

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage. . . Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

If there is a lesson from the lives of the men John Kennedy depicts in this book, if there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.