Quotes by John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

American politician

Alive from: 1917-1963

Category: Politics

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  Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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  A child miseducated is a child lost.

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  Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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  ... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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  A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality.

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  A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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  A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

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  A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.

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  All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!
  Source: Speech West-Berlin, 26-06-1963

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  All this will not be finished in the first one 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.

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  And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

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  As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

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  Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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  Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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  Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.