President Art Vision Navy Cold War If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy
Truth The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - John F. Kennedy
Skin Ideas Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. - John F. Kennedy
Sons Father Now My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - John F. Kennedy
Growth The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. - John F. Kennedy
Past Trust To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. - John F. Kennedy
Man I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. - John F. Kennedy
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. - John F. Kennedy
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. - Gerald R. Ford
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. - John F. Kennedy