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

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch – John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination – John F. Kennedy

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy – 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