70 John F. Kennedy Quotes on Life, Politics, and Greatness

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!'

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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.

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.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

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.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.