John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

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.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

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

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.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.