John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was an American politician, naval officer, writer, and statesperson born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Kennedy's education took him through a number of institutions, including Edward Devotion School, Dexter School, Riverdale Country School, Canterbury School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Noble and Greenough School, and Princeton University, before he completed his studies at Harvard College and later attended Stanford Graduate School of Business. Alongside his political career, he worked as a journalist and writer, and his writing earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His military service as a naval officer brought him both the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart, recognizing his conduct during that period of his life. He was also named Time Person of the Year and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Kennedy died on November 22, 1963, at Parkland Memorial Hospital, having held United States citizenship throughout his life. His career spanned the roles of naval officer, journalist, writer, and politician, and the record of his public life reflects a consistent engagement with anti-communist positions alongside his work as a statesperson. The Pulitzer Prize for Biography and his decorated military service remain among the most concrete markers of a life that moved across several distinct professional fields before his death at the age of forty-six.
Quotes by John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy's insights on:
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
We want students and graduates to recognize that America's colleges have not been built up, have not been developed, merely to advance the private economic interest of its graduates. They have a greater purpose in mind. No college graduate can go out from any college today without being a man of his Nation and a man of his time, without pursuing in his own life, not only his private interest, but the welfare of his country.
If you look throughout human history the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning hin safely to the earth.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities.
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
