Quotes by John F. Kennedy

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."

"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just."

"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."

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."