John Quotes

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

Fear is essential for courage.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

Who hath not served can not command.