Favorite JFK quotations: Hope and Inspiration as We Continue Our Struggle

[prolesunited]

Here's some of mine.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true today than ever that knowledge is power.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be run.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

We can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

For more about his life and career, visit http://www.jfklibrary.org/index.htm


What are some of your favorite quotes and speeches?

[Octafish]

1. Here are a few...just a glimpse of what we lost...

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"(Happiness is) ... the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."