John F. Kennedy Quotes About Victory

• Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Sea, Victory

• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Goal, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

• We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Risk, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

• Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

  John F. Kennedy

  Plato, Ambition, Carpe Diem

• There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Father, Government

  State Department press conference on April 21, 1961. "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., p. 262, 1965.

• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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