For 'carrie' and 'Brooklynkat'

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
Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

If men and women are in chains, anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

John F. Kennedy

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard core unemployed.

John F. Kennedy

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

John F. Kennedy

A pro-American Democrat patriot? Ah, but you on the Left would want no part of President Kennedy. You have Howard Dean and Michael Moore.