Top 111 Quotes by 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.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.