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John F. Kennedy

  • I look forward to a great future for America--a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
    (topic: America)


  • 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.
    (topic: courage)


  • The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
    (topic: imagination)


  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
    (topic: poverty)


  • Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
    (topic: prayer)


  • Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    (topic: responsibility)


  • I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy--"Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
    (topic: voting)


  • The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
    (topic: voting)