Failure has no friends.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Success]

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Teams and Teamwork]

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Third World]

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Time and Time Management]

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Truth]

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Twentieth Century]

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Tyranny]

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.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Unemployment]

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John F. Kennedy - [United Nations]

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 - [Vision]

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Voting]

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Voting]

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Voting]

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Voting]

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~ John F. Kennedy - [War]

... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Patriotism]

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Peace]

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Peace]

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Peace]

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Peace]