Quote

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

John F. Kennedy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
35Th U.S. President
Journalist
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Jack Kennedy
President Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
J. F. Kennedy
JFK
John Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy
JF Kennedy
Rather
Would
Precedents
Precedent
Accused
Promises
Breaking
Promise

More quotes by John F. Kennedy

Image
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon!
John F. Kennedy
Image
But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.
John F. Kennedy
Image
It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
John F. Kennedy
Image
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
John F. Kennedy
Image
A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
John F. Kennedy
Image
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
John F. Kennedy
Image
This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
John F. Kennedy
Image
I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.
John F. Kennedy
Image
I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.
John F. Kennedy
Image
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
John F. Kennedy
Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
John F. Kennedy
Image
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
John F. Kennedy
Image
A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.
John F. Kennedy
Image
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.
John F. Kennedy
Image
The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy
Image
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy