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.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents
John Fitzgerald 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy