The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy More Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy More Quotes From John Fitzgerald Kennedy Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament) John Fitzgerald Kennedy To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America. John Fitzgerald Kennedy We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John Fitzgerald Kennedy In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. John Fitzgerald 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. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. John Fitzgerald Kennedy My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices) John Fitzgerald Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. John Fitzgerald Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. John Fitzgerald 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. John Fitzgerald Kennedy I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. John Fitzgerald Kennedy I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. John Fitzgerald Kennedy I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events. John Fitzgerald Kennedy If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. John Fitzgerald Kennedy If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
