Quotes by John F. Kennedy

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

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.

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.