"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
-John F. Kennedy
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.“
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"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
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"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
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"The pay is good and I can walk to work."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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