Ask Not What Your Country Quotes

#1. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Mark Steyn

#2. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

J.F. Kennedy

#3. When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

Allen West

#4. Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually,

David McCullough

#5. And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.

David Maraniss

#6. If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.

Margaret Chan

#7. I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

Tim Hunt

#8. Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#9. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

#10. 5 decades since JFK's inaugural address it is time now to ask, what your country can do for you & not what you can do for your country. You, my friend have done enough!

Anno Nomius

#11. One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me

Louis Pasteur

#12. Some would ask what country am I from? We ara supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said the country next to Pakistan.

Thomas L. Friedman

#13. By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience.

Garrison Keillor

#14. Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

Cole Porter

#15. The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

Cullen Murphy

#16. When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

Byron Dorgan

#17. you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?

Charles Stross

#18. Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Daniel Webster

#19. I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

Dalai Lama

#20. This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

Golda Meir