• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      I think so.

      That Kennedy quote has always been a puzzler.

      Not in meaning, but why the hell it’s supposed to be some kind of American ideal to aspire to.

      “Take what we give you and beg to serve” seems a more honest phrasing.

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        You rarely see any thing else from that speech. If they’d just show even the part right after the “ask not” part it would help.

        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.

        -JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961