You may remember him as President Kennedy of the United States, but his full name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). It was also known as JFK which were the initials of his name. He was the XNUMXth president of the US Everyone remembers his tragic assassination in Dallas today.
His political function had a liberal humanist character and even today it is considered one of the best political functions that has existed to date in the country. He was always aware of the social crisis that his country was experiencing due to the racial segregation that divided society. He wanted all Americans to be able to enjoy the privileges of the country regardless of their race or color.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes
He always had words of hope, humility and full of humanity thinking of freedom and democracy. He always looked for peace and social union. The phrases that we show you below show the great heart that he had and remind us of the lack that more people do in social power.
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.
- A smart man is one who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him.
- Humanity must end war, or war will end humanity.
- To love reading is to exchange hours of weariness for hours of ineffable and delicious company.
- Democracy is a superior form of government, because it is based on respect for man as a rational being.
- The education is the key of the future. The key to man's destiny and his ability to act in a better world.
- The greatness of a man is in direct relation to the evidence of his moral strength.
- Freedom without education is always a danger; education without freedom is futile.
- When a politician does not love the public good or respect himself, or when his self-respect is limited to the benefits of office, then the public interest is poorly served.
- If a free society cannot help its many poor, it cannot save its few rich either.
- Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- We must never negotiate out of fear. But we should never fear to negotiate.
- There are risks and costs in all action. But they are far less than the long-term risks of comfortable inaction.
- When power leads man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power reduces man's area of concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- Peace is a daily, weekly and monthly process, gradually changing your mind, slowly eroding old barriers, and quietly building new structures.
- A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor; it only requires that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
- Our progress as a nation cannot be faster than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- By granting rights to others that belong to them, we grant rights to ourselves and to our country.
- Too often… we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- Man remains the most extraordinary computer of all. Fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the foundation of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character or motivations, but I do affirm that they should be equal in their opportunity to develop their own character, their motivation and their abilities.
- A smart man is one who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him.
- If art is to nurture the roots of our culture, society must leave the artist free to follow his vision wherever it may lead.
- The unity of freedom has never been based on uniformity of opinion.
- The problems of the world cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- I am an idealist without illusions.
- We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- A man does what he must do, despite personal consequences, despite obstacles, dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.
- I don't think the intelligence reports are that hot. Some days I get more from the New York Times.
- In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been given the role of defending freedom in its hour of greatest danger. I do not accept this responsibility, I welcome it.
- When we got to the office, what surprised me the most was to find that things were as bad as we had been saying.
- The great enemy of truth is often not lying, deliberate, artificial, and dishonest, but persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic myth. Too often we cling to the cliches of our ancestors. We submit all the facts to a ready-made set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private matter, none imposed by him on the nation or imposed by the nation on him as a condition of holding that office.
- You can fool everyone for a short time, you can fool some all of the time, but you cannot fool everyone all of the time.
- If someone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, they can. All you have to be prepared to do is lay down your life for the president.
