John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction”

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.”

“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

“All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality.”

“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.”

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

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

“Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable”