0001 hours - Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006
Nov.22, 1963
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 1917-1963
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER, AND FOR THOSE OF US TOO OLD NOT TO EVER FORGET, 43 YEARS AGO TODAY, AMERICA LOST ITS GREATEST LEADER THAT EVER WAS, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, OUR 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. HERE NOW IN TRIBUTE, ARE QUOTES FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. 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 F. Kennedy
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation�s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. 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 F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy, Speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
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.
John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
