User:RD/9k/Kennedy's 'your country' speech (Q618)
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- Kennedy's 'your country' speech [1] -> I never looked at this thing all the way through before.
this speech reads like something out ofHamlet and yet it's way fuller of deepities than a Shakespeare play
Motifs or claims
Ask what you can do for your country
/ Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country (John F. Kennedy) / We shall pay any price to assure the success of liberty (sense)We have chosen poverty
/ Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of poverty -> very tempted to mark this false, because U.S. candidates say this all the time and yet it never happens, so is it really 'possible' or is it in fact impossible for the people saying it?You were always free
(Liberal-republicanism) / The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God (John F. Kennedy) [2] / (9k)
Related
- Would this statement have a worse connotation coming out of Stalin's government? (question) / thing that would sound different coming out of Stalin's government (motif) / (9k)