"My fellow Americans, ask not what your..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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“Success has many fathers.”
“The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.”
“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”
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“I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.”
“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.”
“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”
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“Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.”
“The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.”
“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”