Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JF
John F. KennedyInaugural Address (1961)
About John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States who launched the race to the Moon. (1917-1963)
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- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.Inaugural Address (1961)
- We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.Address at Rice University (1962)
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.Remarks prepared for delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas (1963)
- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (1963)
- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1963)
- Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.Speech at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock (1963)
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- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
- It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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