John F. Kennedy

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

John F. Kennedy

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century… unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

John F. Kennedy

The United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

John F. Kennedy

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

John F. Kennedy

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

John F. Kennedy

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

John F. Kennedy

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.

John F. Kennedy

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

John F. Kennedy

There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan… I’m the responsible officer of the Government.

John F. Kennedy

There’s an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man’s job, send a lady.

John F. Kennedy