John F. Kennedy

Remember that our nation’s first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

John F. Kennedy

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

John F. Kennedy

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man’s place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man’s own nature.

John F. Kennedy

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

John F. Kennedy

So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

John F. Kennedy

So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

John F. Kennedy

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

John F. Kennedy

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

John F. Kennedy

So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

John F. Kennedy

Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.

John F. Kennedy