Archive for the ‘John Kennedy’ Category
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
– John F. Kennedy in an address at Rice University, September 12, 1962 (8:40 into video)
“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.”
– John F. Kennedy to the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
“Mankind must put an end to war or
war will put an end to mankind.”
– John F. Kennedy in a speech before the General
Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.”
– John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address, January 1961
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
– John F. Kennedy, 35th US President, 1961-1963
