John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was the youngest man ever elected President, and he was assassinated in 1963. Here are some of his best quotes:
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“The greatest revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.”
“And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.”
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
“This is not a time to keep the facts from the people - to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For as the poet Dante once said: ‘The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.’”