John F. Kennedy Quotes About History

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  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • 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.

    "Inclusive Growth". Book by Pratheek Praveen Kumar, p. 18,
  • History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

    Address to a Joint Convention of the General Court of, delivered 9 January 1961
  • It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

    War  
    Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (1965)
  • 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.

    News Conference, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.
  • 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.

  • Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  • If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

    1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.
  • If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. 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.

    Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • 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.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.19, Best Books on
  • 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!'

    Remarks in Rudolf Wilde Platz,West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963.
  • We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

    Speech to the Forth Worth Chamber of Commerce, delivered 22 November 1963
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John F. Kennedy

  • Born: May 29, 1917
  • Died: November 22, 1963
  • Occupation: 35th U.S. President