After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

— John F. Kennedy

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'ICH bin an Berliner.'

— John F. Kennedy

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'ICH bin an Berliner!'

— John F. Kennedy

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days. . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

— John F. Kennedy

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

— John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

— John F. Kennedy

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

— John F. Kennedy

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

— John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

— John F. Kennedy

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

— John F. Kennedy