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QuoteMemorizeAges 12–13 · The Hero's Journey
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.
John F. Kennedy, 1961
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

The famous closing of Kennedy's inaugural address. Pair with FDR's 'fear itself' and Lincoln's Second Inaugural to see the Cold War inheritance of American rhetoric.

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JFK Inaugural Address · January 20, 1961
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