John F. Kennedy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John F. Kennedy quotes, John F. Kennedy sayings, and John F. Kennedy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy
The rising tide lifts all the boats. 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
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 cliches 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
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. John F. Kennedy
Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. John F. Kennedy
Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency. John F. Kennedy
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John F. Kennedy
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future. John F. Kennedy
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace John F. Kennedy
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men. John F. Kennedy
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. John F. Kennedy
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. John F. Kennedy
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive, always growing, always unfinished. John F. Kennedy
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope. John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John F. Kennedy
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. 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
The strongest force in the world today is the desire for national independence, reaching well beyond any ideology or really any national power. John F. Kennedy
If there is a single issue that divides the world today, it is independence. John F. Kennedy
The constitution of the united states stresses not independence but interdependence, not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all. John F. Kennedy
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. John F. Kennedy
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. John F. Kennedy
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. 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