Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
— John F. Kennedy
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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.
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!
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts 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 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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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.
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
