Top 500 John F. Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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.”

— John F. Kennedy

302. “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!”

— John F. Kennedy

303. “Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I’ve just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.”

— John F. Kennedy

304. “Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.”

— John F. Kennedy

305. “My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

306. “Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.”

— John F. Kennedy

307. “I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”

— John F. Kennedy

308. “Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

309. “Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John F. Kennedy

310. “Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.”

— John F. Kennedy

311. “No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.”

— John F. Kennedy

312. “For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.”

— John F. Kennedy

313. “I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.”

— John F. Kennedy

314. “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.”

— John F. Kennedy

315. “If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.”

— John F. Kennedy

316. “All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.”

— John F. Kennedy

317. “We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.”

— John F. Kennedy

318. “I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It’s more than healthy; it’s fun.”

— John F. Kennedy

319. “A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.”

— John F. Kennedy

320. “In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.”

— John F. Kennedy

321. “This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.”

— John F. Kennedy

322. “We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.”

— John F. Kennedy

323. “We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.”

— John F. Kennedy

324. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.”

— John F. Kennedy

325. “Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force.”

— John F. Kennedy

326. “Someone always needs rescuing, yet there’s only one person who ever seems to understand you. It’s a lot like being Lassie.”

— John F. Kennedy

327. “We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.”

— John F. Kennedy

328. “I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.”

— John F. Kennedy

329. “Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.”

— John F. Kennedy

330. “We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.”

— John F. Kennedy

331. “In order to know who you are you need to know God is.”

— John F. Kennedy

332. “I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.”

— John F. Kennedy

333. “Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.”

— John F. Kennedy

334. “I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.”

— John F. Kennedy

335. “I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy.”

— John F. Kennedy

336. “Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.”

— John F. Kennedy

337. “Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.”

— John F. Kennedy

338. “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”

— John F. Kennedy

339. “For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.”

— John F. Kennedy

340. “Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies – and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America – in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.”

— John F. Kennedy

341. “For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”

— John F. Kennedy

342. “Whatever one’s religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts – including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.”

— John F. Kennedy

343. “The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.”

— John F. Kennedy

344. “The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”

— John F. Kennedy

345. “This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime.”

— John F. Kennedy

346. “Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.”

— John F. Kennedy

347. “There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.”

— John F. Kennedy

348. “I can’t see that it’s wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.”

— John F. Kennedy

349. “I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I’ve no feeling of letting her down because I’ve put her foremost in everything.”

— John F. Kennedy

350. “Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.”

— John F. Kennedy