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What was the date when John F. Kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country?
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∙ 16y ago
This was part of President Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address. President Kennedy was trying to get the country, especially the youth, to go out and do volunteer work. He was a big promoter of the Peace Corp and wanted Americans to do volunteer work overseas to improve the country's image and help developing nations at the same time.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 13y agoOn Friday, January 20, 1961, 35th U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave his first, and only, inaugural address at 12:51 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. He took 13 minutes and 59 seconds to speak 1,364 words. One of the most famous quotes from that address is the following: "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
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∙ 11y agoJFK stole the speach from his old head master George St John.
in the 1930's when he was a school boy at Choate School in Connecticut
The speech its self is inspired by a few political figures including Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
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∙ 15y agoIt comes from his Inaugural Address on 20 January 1961: And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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∙ 12y agoHe made the statement during his inaugural address on January 20, 1961.
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∙ 16y agoOn 20 January 1961.
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∙ 10y agoFrom his old headmaster.
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Who said ask not what your country can do for your country?
John F. Kennedy
Which President said Ask not what your can do for you ask what you can do for country?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Who said these words ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy the 35th President.
WHO first said ask not what your GOVERNMENT can do for you but what you could do for your government?
That is not the correct quote. John F. Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Which president said ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.?
John Kennedy, during his inaugural speech in 1961.
Who said 'ask not what your country?
No. John F. Kennedy made these words famous in his inaugural address in 1961.
What US president said the following words in his inaugural address ''ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country?
It was John F. Kennedy in a now famous speech.John F Kennedy
Who uttered the famous words' ask not what your country can do for -ask what you can do for you country?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy the 35th President.
Who said it first ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country I know John F. Kennedy said it but he is not the first.Churchill?
John F. Kennedy VERY famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." (It is a shame that anyone living in America would not know that quote, it is the heart of community and therefore democracy.) JFK was quoting Khalil Gibran from "The New Frontier" which Gibran had written thirty six years earlier: "Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?"
Did Oliver Wendel Holmes say ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?
No, that was John F. Kennedy. Kennedy said this in his innaugural address. However, it is basically a paraphrase of a quote from Oliver Wendel Holmes, who said: "It is now the moment ...to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return." From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Memorial Day address in Keene, New Hampshire, on May 30, 1884.
What US president said in his inuagural speech that Americans should ask not for what their country could do for them but what could Americans do for their country?
President John F. Kennedy said those words in his inaugural speech in 1961.
Why was john Kennedy speech was so important?
The inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy was refreshing and one to remember. He used a phrase that said ask not what your government can give you but instead think of what you can do to help your country. It was a patriotic speech.
