John F. Kennedy quotes

If not us, who? If not now, when?
- John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
- John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
- John F. Kennedy

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

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

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy

Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.
- John F. Kennedy

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside
- John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

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.
- John F. Kennedy

Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.
- John F. Kennedy

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

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

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

We must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words by to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy