More quotes by John F. Kennedy

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]"
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]"