Quotations from John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- 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.
Television address [July 4, 1960]- The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
Speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination [July 15, 1960]- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Inaugural address [January 20, 1961]- Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Inaugural address [January 20, 1961]- 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 [January 20, 1961]- Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation," a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
Inaugural address [January 20, 1961]- And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Inaugural address [January 20, 1961]- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Address to Latin American diplomats, the White House [March 12, 1962]- There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country...Life is unfair.
Press conference [March 21, 1962]- I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Address at a White House dinner and reception honoring Nobel Prize winners [April 1962]- 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."
Address at City Hall, West Berlin [June 26, 1963]
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