Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John F. Kennedy
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.
John F. Kennedy
Our treatment of Indians . . . still affects the national consciousness... It seems a basic requirement to study the history of Indian people. Only through this study can we as a nation do what must be done if our treatment of the American Indian is not to be marked down for all time as a national disgrace.
John F. Kennedy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
The New Frontier I speak of 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 intent to ask of them
John F. Kennedy
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
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
John F. Kennedy
There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.
John F. Kennedy