My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can... -John F. Kennedy

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy , President
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John F. Kennedy Quotes to Explore

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen....
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth wit...
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose a...
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process....
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination....
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great power...
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace ...
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in thi...
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both....
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war....

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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten....
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, dem...
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory....
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars....
The average American is nothing if not patriotic....
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services ma...
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day...
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started pr...
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead....
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country....