John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
195 Quotes
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
John F. Kennedy
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
John F. Kennedy
"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
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
John F. Kennedy
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy
"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
John F. Kennedy
"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
John F. Kennedy
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
John F. Kennedy
"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."
John F. Kennedy
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."
John F. Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy
"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!"
John F. Kennedy
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."
John F. Kennedy
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
John F. Kennedy
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy
"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."
John F. Kennedy
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
John F. Kennedy
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