Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1667
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
QUOTATION:
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity—let us also be partners in prosperity.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt, West Germany, June 25, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 519.
Kennedy used the “rising tide” image a number of times.
