Quotes by John F. Kennedy

"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!'"

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."

"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."

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

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

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

"The pay is good and I can walk to work."

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."

"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."