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It means that a good citizen should be more concerned about what he can do to improve the condition of his country than with what they might want or expect their country's government to do for them.

This a well known quote form Jack Kennedy's inaugural address in 1961. The idea in not original but people remember the way it is phrased. See the related question for the history of the idea.

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