“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
By John F. Kennedy
“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Too often we…enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie–delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
By John F. Kennedy
“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
By John F. Kennedy
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For 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.”
By John F. Kennedy
“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
By John F. Kennedy
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
By John F. Kennedy
“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 success of liberty.”
By John F. Kennedy
“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.”
By John F. Kennedy
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
By John F. Kennedy
“It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.”
By John F. Kennedy
“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
By John F. Kennedy