President Fact Peace Navy Cold War It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. - John F. Kennedy
History Will We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F. Kennedy
Americans Present Freedom The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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. - John F. Kennedy
Mothers Sons Want Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy
Growth Freedom Will We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy
Women Want 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
Military Today World The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. - John F. Kennedy
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. - John F. Kennedy
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. - Gerald R. Ford
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