Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.