John F. Kennedy

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive, always growing, always unfinished.

John F. Kennedy

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

John F. Kennedy

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

John F. Kennedy

And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

John F. Kennedy

And so it is to the printing press – to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news – that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

John F. Kennedy

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient – that we are only six percent of the world’s population – that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind – that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity – and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

John F. Kennedy

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

John F. Kennedy

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It’s the system that functions in the pinches that survive

John F. Kennedy