“Our responsibility is one of decision — for to govern is to choose.”

— John F. Kennedy, Address at Independence Hall (4 July 1962)

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.”

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

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

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

“Where there is great power there is great responsibility.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

“Our popular Government has often been called an experiment.”