Quotes from John F. Kennedy

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.