We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy More Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy More Quotes From John Fitzgerald Kennedy It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. John Fitzgerald Kennedy My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight. John Fitzgerald Kennedy My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba) John Fitzgerald Kennedy The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John Fitzgerald Kennedy We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. John Fitzgerald Kennedy When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Someday they will name a big airport after me, until then I'll just eat this lovely sandwich. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
