John F. Kennedy

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.

ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY JFK

"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas"

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future"

"One person can make a difference and every person should try."

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

The problems of the world cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Some men dream things that are and ask why. I dream things that aren't and ask why not.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The world is very different now.  For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all form of human poverty and to abolish all form of human life.