Top 111 Quotes by 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.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

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

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.