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  • Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

    Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)
  • O, do not pray for easy lives.

    Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • 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
  • The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

    Trust   Peace   Fear  
    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on
  • The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

    Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.
  • We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

    Life   Fall   Creativity  
    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on
  • The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

    John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”
  • 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.

    Christian   Peace   War  
    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on
  • Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

    "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

  • Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

    Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962
  • 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.

    Moon   Challenges   Chill  
    Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962
  • For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

    Courage   Men   Forget  
    John F. Kennedy (1963). “Profiles in Courage”
  • The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

    Freedom   Men   Rights  
    1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.
  • If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

    Jobs   Believe   School  
    John F. Kennedy's Address upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. September 14, 1960.
  • We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

    Beach   Ocean   Marine  
  • I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

    Ocean   Thinking   Light  
    Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.
  • In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

    Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.
  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

    John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books
  • Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

    "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy Jr., p.9, 1964.
  • Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on
  • One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  • 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.
  • Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

    Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963
  • One person can make a difference.

  • Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

    Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee
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