"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy was addressing both citizens of the United States and those living across the world in this Inaugural Adress of the year 1961. He believed that America could be made a better place, and that it was not all about sitting back and watching the same people take action to make things happen. The citizens should volunteer their time, money and efforts into making the nation a better nation.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is our problem."
Ronald Reagan made this point in his "First Inaugural Address." He felt that from time to time, the people have become adjusted to thinking that society has beome too complex and too developed to to managed by self rule. He also thought that society collectively felt that a government by an elite group is superior than a government the people. So from that he raised the idea that if someone can not govern themself, how can they govern another? This is a great logical point he raised. No one group is superior to the other, and in order to be able to effectively and accurately govern a group of people, when it all boils down, that leader(s) has to know how to govern his/her own self.
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."
This was stated over two hundred years ago, and Barack Obama mentioned this in his "Speech on Race: A More Perfect Union." In refernce to slavery, the idea of the Consitution was to provide liberty and justice for all. Even though this law was put into effect, slaves still suffered massive oppression. Obama states that was was indeed needed was Americans who in the future generation would strive to put that law into effect. The people need to work together to form a more perfect union and continue that march that began with the people who were born before us. There needs to be a combined, strong effort to achieve that so desires perfect union.
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