3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
