Famous quotes by Presidents

"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"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I'm an idealist without illusions"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House"

John F. Kennedy, President

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

John F. Kennedy, President

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A child miseducated, is a child lost"

John F. Kennedy, President

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were"

John F. Kennedy, President

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses"

John F. Kennedy, President

"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats"

John F. Kennedy, President

"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination"

John F. Kennedy, President

"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... We want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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