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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.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Motivation & Goals
Things don’t just happen, they are made to happen.
Speech given at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock, United States of America (3 October 1963); quoted in John F. Kennedy in Quotations: A Topical Dictionary, with Sources (2013), McFarland, entry 1729
- Motivation & Goals
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

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