John F. Kennedy World Quotations

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

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

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.