Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Everything changes but change itself.

Change is the law of life.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

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.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.