“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy, Letter on the United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963)

About John F. Kennedy

1917 – 1963

Thirty-fifth President of the United States.

“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.”

“For of those to whom much is given, much is required.”

“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”