Top 500 John F. Kennedy Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “Life’s not fair but not always to your disadvantage.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

309. “Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.”

— John F. Kennedy

310. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

313. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

315. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

318. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

324. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

333. “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”

— John F. Kennedy

334. “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

335. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

337. “Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.”

— John F. Kennedy

338. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

341. “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

342. “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

343. “Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.”

— John F. Kennedy

344. “We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.”

— John F. Kennedy

345. “You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.”

— John F. Kennedy

346. “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

347. “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

348. “In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.”

— John F. Kennedy

349. “A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.”

— John F. Kennedy

350. “When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.”

— John F. Kennedy