U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his first and only inaugural address at 12:51 (ET) Friday, January 20, 1961, immediately after taking the presidential oath of office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
John Kennedy was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the presidency in the 1960 presidential election, defeating Republican candidate and then Vice President Richard Nixon. In doing so he became the youngest man elected U.S. p...
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Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy
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- Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
- Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- The world is very different now. For man holds in his hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
- For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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