John F. Kennedy Quotes About Struggle

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

• Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Struggle, Twilight

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961. The words in quotation marks are from the Bible, Romans 12:12.

• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Real, Struggle

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961.

• Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

  John F. Kennedy

  Struggle, Mean, People

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

• What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Struggle, Sunshine

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.185, Best Books on

• To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Struggle, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

• If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Struggle, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.305, Best Books on

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