The repository contains nine quotes from President John F. Kennedy.

Conflict • Leadership

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.

America and Patriotism • Classics

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

Politics and Government • Responsibility

When things don’t go well they like to blame Presidents; and that’s something that Presidents are paid for.

Opinion

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Knowledge

At a dinner honoring American Nobel Prize winners, April 29, 1962:

I think that this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Education

During a commencement speech in 1962 after Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, received an honorary degree from Yale:

I am particularly glad to become a Yale man because as I think about my troubles, I find that a lot of them come from other Yale men.

Freedom • Politics and Government

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Character • Politics and Government

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

Problem Solving

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.