“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

— John F. Kennedy, Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act, Hyde Park, New York (14 August 1960)

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.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”