Top 500 John F. Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.”

— John F. Kennedy

452. “In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.”

— John F. Kennedy

453. “I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom.”

— John F. Kennedy

454. “We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.”

— John F. Kennedy

455. “I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.”

— John F. Kennedy

456. “I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.”

— John F. Kennedy

457. “Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons – new and uncertain nations – new pressures of population and deprivation.”

— John F. Kennedy

458. “I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome – and I’m not convinced of these – they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.”

— John F. Kennedy

459. “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.”

— John F. Kennedy

460. “Let us not seek the Republican answer.”

— John F. Kennedy

461. “No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.”

— John F. Kennedy

462. “While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.”

— John F. Kennedy

463. “I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.”

— John F. Kennedy

464. “A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President’s “Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn.” I want to deny that!”

— John F. Kennedy

465. “At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.”

— John F. Kennedy

466. “Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.”

— John F. Kennedy

467. “One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.”

— John F. Kennedy

468. “Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.”

— John F. Kennedy

469. “I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.”

— John F. Kennedy

470. “We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon.”

— John F. Kennedy

471. “Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.”

— John F. Kennedy

472. “I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven’t got a thing.”

— John F. Kennedy

473. “Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.”

— John F. Kennedy

474. “I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”

— John F. Kennedy

475. “Disarmament without checks is but a shadow – and a community without law is but a shell.”

— John F. Kennedy

476. “A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.”

— John F. Kennedy

477. “It is no contradiction – the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today’s economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.”

— John F. Kennedy

478. “This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it’s not as fictional as we think.”

— John F. Kennedy

479. “Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?”

— John F. Kennedy

480. “It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one’s golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.”

— John F. Kennedy

481. “No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.”

— John F. Kennedy

482. “Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?”

— John F. Kennedy

483. “When things don’t go well they like to blame presidents; and that’s something that presidents are paid for.”

— John F. Kennedy

484. “The world has been close to war before – but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.”

— John F. Kennedy

485. “I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”

— John F. Kennedy

486. “Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.”

— John F. Kennedy

487. “The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.”

— John F. Kennedy

488. “The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.”

— John F. Kennedy

489. “Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.”

— John F. Kennedy

490. “In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.”

— John F. Kennedy

491. “The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.”

— John F. Kennedy

492. “As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy.”

— John F. Kennedy

493. “The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .”

— John F. Kennedy

494. “Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”

— John F. Kennedy

495. “Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can’t find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.”

— John F. Kennedy

496. “The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation’s interest.”

— John F. Kennedy

497. “We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.”

— John F. Kennedy

498. “There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.”

— John F. Kennedy

499. “Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.”

— John F. Kennedy

500. “The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.”

— John F. Kennedy