John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

Enjoy, Thought, Opinion

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Free, Secret

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Decisions, Growth

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

Ignorance, Democracy, Security

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Alone, Human

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Life, Change

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

War, End, Before

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

Long, Far, Action

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

Learning, Leadership

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy

Power, War, Corruption

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Poetry, Him

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Once, Happens

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.
John F. Kennedy

Patriotism, Great, Power

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

War, Today, Same

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Moment

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Great, Enemy

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

Victory, Defeat, Thousand

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

Wisdom, Knowledge, Ignorance

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Long

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

Men, Cannot, Problems

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Fail, Achieve

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: May 29, 1917

Died: November 22, 1963

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