A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten – John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names – John F. Kennedy

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process – John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost – John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last – John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it – John F. Kennedy