♦ When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were – John F. Kennedy

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

♦ The pay is good and I can walk to work – John F. Kennedy

♦ Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy

♦ The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds – 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

♦ 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

♦ 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