Quotes from John F. Kennedy
A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.
- 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.
- John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
- John F. Kennedy
Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
- John F. Kennedy
The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
- John F. Kennedy
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings
- John F. Kennedy
Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.
- John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- 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
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy