John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

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, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

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

I am an idealist without illusions.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

The supreme reality of our time is ... the vulnerability of this planet.