21 quotes
president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
"Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?"
on Life
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right."
on Wisdom
"Freedom is not enough."
on Freedom
"The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood."
on Community
"A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right."
on Leadership
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
on War
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
on Courage
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
on Education
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
on Peace
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."
on Faith
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
"Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact."
on History
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
on Time
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
on Inspirational
"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
on Learning
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
on Humor
"Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it."
on Relationships
"Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right."
on Ethics
