1. The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

- John F. Kennedy

2. Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

- John F. Kennedy

3. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.

- John F. Kennedy

4. The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a ‘Harvard man’ is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.

- John F. Kennedy

5. If not us, who? If not now, when?

- John F. Kennedy

6. The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

- John F. Kennedy

7. For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won—and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier…. But 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

8. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

9. Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief, shining moment that was known as Camelot. There’ll be great presidents again … but there will never be another Camelot.

- John F. Kennedy

10. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

- John F. Kennedy

11. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

- John F. Kennedy

12. Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

- John F. Kennedy

13. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

14. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope or dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.

- John F. Kennedy

15. The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

- John F. Kennedy

16. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

17. Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

- John F. Kennedy

18. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F. Kennedy

19. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

- John F. Kennedy

20. Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

- John F. Kennedy

21. Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.

- John F. Kennedy

22. We choose to go the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

- John F. Kennedy

23. I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

- John F. Kennedy

24. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

25. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on forever.

- John F. Kennedy

26. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

- John F. Kennedy

27. A child miseducated is a child lost.

- John F. Kennedy

28. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

- John F. Kennedy

29. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

30. Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

- John F. Kennedy

31. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- John F. Kennedy