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Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy · 1961

Quotes

“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Abraham Lincoln · The Gettysburg Address, 1863 · Primary source

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

Works

Theodore Roosevelt · 1910
Citizenship in a Republic

An address on citizenship in democratic societies, examining civic duty, individual responsibility, public service, equality, liberty and political conduct.

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