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midnight ET test episode · SXM INTERNAL TEST SHOW (DO NOT BOOK)

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  Speaker 1: You John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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  Do solemnly swear
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  Speaker 2: I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear
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  Speaker 1: That you'll faithfully execute the office of President
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  of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: But I will faithfully execute the office
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  of President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: And will to the best of your ability
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  Speaker 2: And will to the best of my ability,
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  Speaker 1: Preserve, protect, and defend the constitution
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  of the United States
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  Speaker 2: Preserve, protect and defend the
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  constitution of the United States. So
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  Speaker 1: Help you God.
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  Speaker 2: So help me, God,
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  Speaker 3: Vice President Johnson.
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  Mr. Speaker, Mr.
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  Chief Justice President Eisenhower,
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  vice President Nixon, president Truman,
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  Reverend Clergy fellow citizens,
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  we observe today, not a victory of potty,
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  but a celebration of freedom.
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  Symbolizing an end as well as a beginning
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  signifying renewal as well as change
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  for I have sworn before you
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  and Almighty God, the same solemn oath
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  are four bears prescribed nearly a century
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  and three quarters ago.
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  The world is very different now
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  for man holds in his mortal hands, the power
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  to abolish all forms of human poverty
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  and all forms of human life.
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  And yet the same revolutionary belief
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  for which our forebears fought
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  are still at issue around the globe.
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  The belief that the rights of man
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  come not from the generosity of the state,
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  but from the hand of God.
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  We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of
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  that first revolution.
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  Let the word go forth from this time
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  and place to friend
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  and for alike that the torch has been passed
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  to a new generation of Americans born in this century,
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  tempered by war, disciplined by a hard
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  and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage,
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  and unwilling to witness
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  or permit the slow undoing
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  of those human rights
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  to which this nation has always been committed
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  and to which we are committed today
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  at home and around the world.
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  Let every nation know
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  whether it wishes us well
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  or ill, that we shall pay any price,
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  bear any burden, meet any hardship,
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  support any friend, oppose any foe
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  to assure the survival and the success of liberty
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  This much.
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  We pledge and more to those old allies
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  whose cultural and spiritual origins we share.
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  We pledge the loyalty of faithful friends united.
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  There is little we cannot do in a host
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  of cooperative ventures divided.
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  There is little we can do
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  for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds
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  and split a thunder to those new states whom we welcome
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  to the ranks of the free.
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  We pledge our word that one form
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  of colonial control shall not have passed away
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  merely to be replaced by a far more ion tyranny.
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  We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view,
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  but we shall always hope to find them
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  strongly supporting their own freedom.
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  And to remember that in the past, those
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  who foolishly thought power by riding the back
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  of the tiger ended up inside
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  to those people in the Hudson villages
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  of half the globe struggling to break the bonds
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  of mass misery.
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  We pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves
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  for whatever period is required.
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  Not because the communists may be doing it, not
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  because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
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  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
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  it cannot save the few who are rich
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  To our sister republic south of our border.
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  We offer a special pledge to convert our good words
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  into good deeds in a new alliance for progress,
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  to assist free men
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  and free government in casting off the chains of poverty.
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  But this peaceful revolution of hope
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  cannot become the prey of hostile powers.
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  Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them
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  to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas.
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  And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends
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  to remain the master of its own house
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  To that world assembly of sovereign states,
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  the United Nations our last best hope.
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  In an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced
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  the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support
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  to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective
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  to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak.
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  And to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
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  Finally, to those nations
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  who would make themselves our adversary.
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  We offer not a pledge,
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  but a request that both sides
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  begin a new the quest for peace.
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  Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science
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  engulf all humanity in planned
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  or accidental self-destruction.
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  We dare not tempt them with weakness for only when our arms
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  are sufficient beyond doubt, can we be certain beyond doubt
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  that they will never be employed, but neither can.
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  Two great and powerful groups of nations
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  take comfort from our present course both sides,
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  overburdened by the cost of modern weapons,
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  both rightly alarmed by the steady spread
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  of the deadly atom, yet both racing to walder
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  that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand
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  of mankind final war.
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  So let us begin anew remembering on both sides
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  that civility is not a sign of weakness
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  and sincerity is always subject to proof.
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  Let us never negotiate out of fear,
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  but let us never fear to negotiate.
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  Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead
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  of belaboring those problems which divide us.
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  Let both sides for the first time formulate serious
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  and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms
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  and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations
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  under the absolute control of all nations.
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  Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science
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  instead of its terrors Together, let us explore the stars,
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  conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,
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  tap the ocean depth, and encourage the odds
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  and commerce let both sides unite to heed
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  in all corners of the earth, the command of Isaiah
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  to undo the heavy burden and let the oppressed go free.
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  And if a beachhead of cooperation
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  may push back the jungle of suspicion,
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  let both sides join in creating a new endeavor,
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  not a new balance of power,
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  but a new world of law where the strong adjust
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  and the weak, secure and the peace preserved.
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  All this will not be finished in the first 100 days,
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  nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days,
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  nor in the life of this administration,
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  nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
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  But let us begin
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  In your hands.
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  My fellow citizens more than mine
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  will rest the final success or failure of our course.
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  Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans
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  has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
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  The graves of young Americans who answered the call
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  to service surround the globe.
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  Now the trumpet summons us again.
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  Now it is a call to bear arms, though arms.
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  We need not as a call to battle
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  though in battle we are.
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  But a call to bear the burden
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  of a long twilight struggle, year in
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  and year out, rejoicing in hope,
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  patient in tribulation,
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  a struggle against the common enemies of man, tyranny,
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  poverty, disease, and war itself.
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  Can we forge against these enemies, a grand
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  and global alliance, north
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  and south, east
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  and west that can assure a more fruitful life
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  for all mankind?
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  Will you join in that historic effort?
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  In the long history of the world, only a few generations
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  have been granted the role of defending freedom
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  in its hour of maximum danger.
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  I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it
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  Speaker 4: I I do not
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  believe that any of us would exchange places
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  with any other people or any other generation.
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  The energy, the faith, the devotion which we
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  bring to this endeavor will light our country
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  and all who serve it.
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  And the globe from that fire can truly light the world.
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  And so my fellow Americans ask not
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  what your country can do for you.
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  Ask what you can do for your country.
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  My fellow citizens of the world.
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  Ask not what America will do for you,
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  but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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  Finally, whether you are citizens of America
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  or citizens of the world, ask of us here
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  the same high standards of strength
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  and sacrifice, which we ask of you
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  with a good conscience.
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  Our only sure reward with history.
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  The final judge of our deeds let us go forth
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  to lead the land.
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  We love asking his blessing and his help,
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  but knowing that here on earth God's work
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  must truly be our own.