John F. Kennedy

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.