John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

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.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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!'

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.