John F. Kennedy Quotes About Freedom

• 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

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• 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

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Freedom, Learning

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Rights

  1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

• The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Diversity, Unity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.15, Best Books on

• And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
  My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

• Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, People, Educated

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

• The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Powerful, Independent

• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

• I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Rights, Liberty

• Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Goal, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Perseverance, Freedom, Character

  Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, November 16, 1961.

• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Perfect, Democracy

• While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Defense, Pursuit

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.18, Best Books on

• The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Freedom, Responsibility

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

• And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Citizens, Boast

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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