30 of the Best Quotes From John F. Kennedy

“Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief, shining moment that was known as Camelot. There’ll be great presidents again … but there will never be another Camelot.” – Jacqueline Kennedy

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.” –

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” –

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” –

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” –

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.” –

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” –

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.” –

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope or dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.” –

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” –

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” –

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” –

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” –

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” –

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” –

“For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.” –

“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” –

“For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won—and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier…. But 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.” –

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.” –

“A child miseducated is a child lost.” –

“If not us, who? If not now, when?” –

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” –

“We choose to go the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” –

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” –

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” –

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” –

“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.” –

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” –

“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.” –

“The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a ...

... ‘Harvard man’ is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.” –

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