John F. Kennedy

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

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.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.