Quotes of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - somelinesforyou

“ Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. ”

- 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

“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. ”

- 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

“ Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ”

- 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

“ 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 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

“ The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need — not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" — a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity… ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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