John F. Kennedy Quotations | Page 4

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

Let us not seek the Republican answer.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.