Kennedy Quotes

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in -- to prevent them from leaving us.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make

The commitment I seek is not to outworn views but to old values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue.

Let us reject the counsels of doubt and calculation

Yes, we are all Americans. This is what we do. We reach the moon. We scale the heights. I know it. I've seen it. I've lived it. And we can do it again.

We have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too seriously.

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.

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

[GDP]...it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.