John F. Kennedy Quotes

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

One person can make a difference and every person should try.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.