All JOHN F. KENNEDY Quotes about “Freedom”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
“Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.”
“I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.”
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”
“Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”
“While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.”
“All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.”
“While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.”

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