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

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.