"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, January 16, 2011

50 years ago this week

The Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You speech by John F. Kennedy:

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you."

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