John F. Kennedy's Legacy in Quotes

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
– President Kennedy's commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
– President Kennedy's commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
– JFK's remarks upon presenting the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, in the Flower Garden of the White House, May 21, 1963

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."
– JFK's remarks at the opening of a USIA Transmitter in Greenville, N.C., February 8, 1963

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
– John F. Kennedy

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
– JFK's address at St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt, Germany, June 25, 1963