John F Kennedy on Deep Work Quotes

"Art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills."

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

"The concentrated power of the federal government... is a source of great danger."

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

"An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated."

"Let us think and talk less of obligations and more of opportunities."

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."

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

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"The problems which you face and which we face are complex and difficult."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

"In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

"The state of our union is well. But we can do better."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations."

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future."

"For the problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met—obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings."

"Our problems are man-made—therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."