John F. Kennedy

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

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”

“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

“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.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”

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

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“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.”

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

“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

“I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”

“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.”

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”