To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. John F. Kennedy More Quotes by John F. Kennedy More Quotes From John F. Kennedy We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. John F. Kennedy takenbaseballfootball I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection. John F. Kennedy atheismpresidentreligious When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. John F. Kennedy optimisticpositivethinking The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future. John F. Kennedy keysgivingpast That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent. John F. Kennedy independentlawmen If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay? John F. Kennedy darkchildrenschool We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense. John F. Kennedy phrasesusepeople In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. John F. Kennedy darkmennight Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment. John F. Kennedy expansionrecoverygrowth I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home. John F. Kennedy romeatheismhome A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step John F. Kennedy encouragingmotivationalinspirational The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest. John F. Kennedy judgementexerciseinspirational And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech) John F. Kennedy junerightspeace No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off. John F. Kennedy better-offdown-andmade Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired. John F. Kennedy survivalwarenemy Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. John F. Kennedy bornindependentmen If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. John F. Kennedy questsprogressmen You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest. John F. Kennedy oath-of-officereligiousreligion Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. John F. Kennedy dividesproblemsides Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. John F. Kennedy walllongideas
