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To: Kansas58; Cicero

JFK said, ‘ask not what your country can do for you’

Actually it was Marcus Tullius Cicero who "said" that. But JFK liked the sound of it so much he quoted it. John Kennedy would probably have to run as a Republican today.

13 posted on 10/14/2012 12:46:31 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Oh, so now you think you’re Cicero!


38 posted on 10/14/2012 1:13:26 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: presidio9

Well, at least JFK had speech writers who read the classics.


57 posted on 10/14/2012 1:38:01 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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