Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security – John F. Kennedy

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan – John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction – John F. Kennedy

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

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed – John F. Kennedy

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone – John F. Kennedy