I leave you more than 70 Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy , The thirty-fifth president of the United States and considered by many as an icon of America's eternal aspirations and hopes.
Even years later, he remains in many polls as one of the best presidents of the United States. His figure was etched in the memory of all Americans after he was murdered on November 22, 1963.
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1- The Chinese use brush strokes to write the word"crisis". A brush stroke representing danger, and the other stroke representing opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognize the opportunity.
2- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
3 - If by liberal they refer to someone who looks forward and not backwards, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of people, their health, their homes, their Schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties. Someone who believes that we can break the deadlock and the suspicions that cling to our foreign policia, if that's what they refer to as a"liberal", then I'm proud to say that I'm a liberal.
4. The rights of all men are diminished when a man's rights are threatened.
5. American friend, do not ask what the country can do for you; Ask yourself what you can do for your country.
6- We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make the difference in our lives.
Those who make the peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
8- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of development
9- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the greatest gratitude is not only to speak words, but to live from them.
10- Victory has hundreds of parents while defeat is an orphan.
11- Too many times in a row we cling to the clichés of our ancestors. We submit all the facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
12- We decided to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are difficult, because the goal is to organize and measure the best of our abilities and energies, because that challenge is One that we are willing to accept, one that we are not willing to postpone, and one that we aim to win.
13- Leadership and learning are indispensable among them
14- If a society can not help the many who are poor, it can not save the few that are rich.
15- A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but ideas continue to live. Ideas have endurance without death.
16. Do not pray for easy lives, pray for being a stronger man.
17- If we can not put an end to our differences, at least we can help make the world a safe place for diversity. Because, in the final analysis, our most basic bond is that we all inhabit within this same small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all treasure the future of our children, and we are all mortal.
18- Freedom without learning is always in danger, and learning without freedom is always in vain.
19- Change is the law of life. And those who look only into the past or make the present with certainty will miss the future.
20- We should never negotiate based on fear. But we should never be afraid to negotiate.
21- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
22- We should not look for the republican answer or the democratic answer, but we must look for the correct answer. We should not seek to blame the past. We must accept our own responsibility for the future.
23- We all have in our veins exactly the same percentage of salt in our bodies that exists in the ocean, and therefore we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears... We are tied to the ocean. And when we return to the ocean, whether to sail or simply to look at it, we are returning to the place from which we came.
24- We can not negotiate with people who consider that what is mine is mine and what is yours is what is negotiable.
25- Peace is a daily process, a weekly process, a monthly process that gradually changes opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
26- I am an idealist without illusions.
27- Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
28 - Art is the great democrat, calling the creative genius of every sector of society, without distinguishing race or religion or wealth or color.
"I can not imagine a more comforting career." And any man who in this century is asked what he did to make his life worthwhile, I believe that man can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction; "I served in the great Navy of the United States of America"
30- Ignorance of a voter in a democracy harms the security of all.
31- We need men who can dream things that have never existed.
32. A man does what he has to do, despite personal consequences, despite obstacles, despite the dangers and despite the pressures. And those are the bases of all human morality.
33- And this will not be ready in the first hundred years. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand years, perhaps it will not even be finished in our entire lifetime on the planet, but let's begin.
34. An uneducated child is a lost child.
35- When power leads a man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleans.
36. Those who dare to fail miserably may have a great existence.
37- If it's not us, who? If not now when?
38. Courage in life is often a less dramatic spectacle than courage in a final moment; But it is not a less magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
39. I look with emotion toward the future in which our country will match its military strength with its moral restraint, its wealth with its wisdom, and its power with its purpose.
39. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; It is a form of truth.
40. The most powerful individual force in today's world is not communism or capitalism. Neither is the hydrogen bomb nor the guided missiles. It is man's eternal desire to be independent and free.
41. The only unchanging certainty is that nothing is certain or immutable.
42- A guy spends his time trying to find a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for a woman with whom it is worth to wake up.
Tolerance does not imply a lack of commitment to one's beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Not all children have the same talent or the same skills or the same motivation, but they should have the same rights to develop their talents and skills and motivations to be themselves.
45- There are great costs and risks in an action program, but they are far less than the costs and long-term risks of a program of comfortable inaction.
46- A nation that is afraid of its people to judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its own people.
47. Immigration policy must be generous, fair, flexible. With a policy like that we can look at the world, and look at our own past, with clean hands and a clean conscience.
48- Regardless of whether they are young in spirit or young age, members of the democratic party should never lose that youthful spirit for new ideas and for a better world, which is what has made us great.
If more politicians knew poetry, and if more poets knew of politics, I am convinced that the world would be a little better place to live in.
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, and that we can not impose our will on the other 94 percent of humanity, and that we can not correct every mistake or reverse all adversities, and That, therefore, there can be no American solution to every problem in the world.
51 - A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors and the men it remembers.
52. The definition of happiness of the ancient Greeks was that of the full use of your powers through a line of excellence.
53. The problems of the world can not be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream things that have never been done.
54. Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day on which this planet may no longer be habitable. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
55. The cost of freedom is always high, but the Americans have always paid for it. And there is a path we will never choose, which is the path of surrender or submission.
56. The way to progress is the road to freedom.
57. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the diffusion of truth.
58. The great enemy of truth is often not persuasive, deliberate, artificial and dishonest lying, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
We should use time as a tool, not a sofa.
60- Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. The economy has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those to whom God has put them together, let us not let the man break them into pieces.
61. The world is very different now. Because man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and also all forms of human life.
Our progress as a nation can not be lighter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
63. All mothers want their children to grow up to become presidents, but they do not want them to become politicians in the process.
64. In times of domestic crisis, men of good will and generosity must be able to unite regardless of party or policies.
65. Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
66- Democracy and defense are not substitutes for each other. Any one of them alone would fail.
67. I would rather be accused of breaking with precedents than breaking with promises.
Our problems are man-made, therefore, they can be solved by man. There is no problem in human destiny that is above human beings themselves.
69- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
70. The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
71- All societies get the kind of criminals they deserve. It is also true that each community gets the legal reinforcement in which they insist.
72. The growth of the economy without social progress leaves the great majority of people in poverty, while a few privileged ones draw the benefits of an increasing abundance.