John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

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.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.