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John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. His presidency was marked by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, and the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement. Kennedy's speeches are among the most quoted in American political history.

“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

— John F. Kennedy

Life

All Quotes by John F. Kennedy

“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

Poetry

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

— John F. Kennedy

Memorialday

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

— John F. Kennedy

Motivational

“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.”

— John F. Kennedy

Patriotism

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

— John F. Kennedy

Leadership

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

— John F. Kennedy

Freedom

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”

— John F. Kennedy

Life

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

— John F. Kennedy

Change

“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.”

— John F. Kennedy

Fitness

“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

— John F. Kennedy

Life

“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

Great

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

— John F. Kennedy

Courage

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

— John F. Kennedy

Time

“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”

— John F. Kennedy

Best

“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

Future

“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

Fear

“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

Courage

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”

— John F. Kennedy

War

“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!'”

— John F. Kennedy

Men

“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”

— John F. Kennedy

Peace