3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
