John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Sometimes known as Jack Kennedy, or more familiarly by his initials JFK, he was an American politician who became the 35th President of the United States in 1961.
John F. Kennedy was an eloquent speaker who created numerous perceptive quotes.
His presidency was marked by many momentous events. These included the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Project Apollo — which culminated in the first moon landing — and increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Although not widely known by the public at the time, Kennedy was a serial womanizer. He once told British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, “If I don’t have sex every day, I get a headache.”
Fortunately, the leader of the free world was sufficiently satisfied to be able to perform his other presidential duties.
The quotes of President John F. Kennedy are only about statesmanlike things:
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
- Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
- It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
- The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
- Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Do these perceptive quotes by President John F. Kennedy give any insight into his character?
Does his private life matter? How do you rate his performance as president?
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