The quotations of

John F. Kennedy

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

1917–1963

68 quotes, most often on War & Peace, America and Freedom. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.
Address to the UN General Assembly (20 September 1963)
- War & Peace
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (25 June 1963)
- Change
- Time
The long labor of peace is an undertaking for every nation — and in this effort none of us can remain unaligned. To this goal none can be uncommitted.
Address to the UN General Assembly (20 September 1963)
- War & Peace
Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
A Strategy of Peace (1963)
- Hope
- Inspiration
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
Special Message to the Congress on Education (20 February 1961)
- Education
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.
Speech at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
- Power
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
To the Moon (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
- Science
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.”
Ich Bin Ein Berliner (1963)
- Freedom

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