John Fitzgerald Quotations

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - John F Kennedy

Most people are surprised that anyone would make a movie about baseball in Ireland. But I think they are even more surprised when they find out it's a true story.

Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "" rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulat

I was so proud of them in Switzerland. I would've been disappointed if he wasn't disappointed because that means he's desperate to play.

I was so proud of all the guys in Switzerland, they all had a big role to play and really stepped up and did the job for us.

I am reading it more and enjoying it less.

He got 68 per cent of his first serves in and that confirms it was one of the best serving performances I have ever seen.

He wants to play, that's genuine. His record speaks for itself. I don't know if there has been a player in the modern game in Australia who has played as much as him -- I would assume that his record in terms of playing and being available is better than anybody.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down

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

That city is just looking for an excuse to get together and party. I loved my time there.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The pressure is always there and this match was decided by a couple of points. It's just a matter of winning the right points at the right time and that's what they did.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom

We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats

Argentina are a mighty strong nation in men's tennis. It's a tough ask but a good challenge.

The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fourth person.

Sometimes these Davis Cup doubles are on a knife's edge, especially when it's a 1-1 scenario, it shows how pivotal they are, but this was a good effort, tough players those two guys. You've got Max ranked three in the world (in doubles) and the other guy's a hell of a hitter of the ball. These are not easy to win. That was a very good performance.

That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

I have played 11 years of Davis Cup and I think once I won a fifth rubber so it doesn't come around that often. It is a special moment for Chris.

I don't think he'll just go out there just to practice. But I think he would be real good for our defensive backs and receivers alike.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln