In short, we must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
John F. Kennedy - Problems - Solutions - USA - Global - Population - Hegemony - Adversity

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy - Peaceful - Revolution - Violence - Impossible

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
John F. Kennedy - Hell - Moral - Crisis - Indecisive

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy - USA - Friendship - Freedom - Warning - Liberty - Success - Support - Survival

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
John F. Kennedy - Space - Adventure - Global - Leadership

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. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
John F. Kennedy - Secrecy - Society - Free - Journalism - Danger - JFK Speech

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
John F. Kennedy - USA - Attack - War - Troops - Enemy - Survival - Danger - Globe - JFK Speech

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
John F. Kennedy - Controversy - News - Press - Mistakes - Responsibility - Journalism - JFK Speech

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.
John F. Kennedy - USA - War - Government - Danger - Enemy - Security - Press - First Amendment - News - Media - Journalism - JFK Speech

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Action

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy - Negotiation - Fear

And so, my fellow Americans.. Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy - Action - America - Questions - Encouragement

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy - Education - Great - Hopes - Dreams - Strength

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy - Freedom - Growth

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Crisis - Opportunity

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy - Ideas - Death

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises.. it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy - Encouragement - America - Challenges

A man does what he must.. in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures.. and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Challenges - Ethics

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy - Change - Life - Motivational

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy - Forgiveness