3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy 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 Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
