John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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

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.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

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.