John F. Kennedy

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• Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)

  • Patriotism

• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas

  • Leadership

• For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.

  A Strategy of Peace (1963)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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