“The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.”

— John F. Kennedy, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors (20 April 1961)

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.”

“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”

“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”