And when John F. Kennedy memorably exhorted Americans: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country," was he consciously quoting words written by Gibran and addressed to the people of Syria and Lebanon half a century earlier? http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/j012061.htm http://www.4umi.com/gibran/ http://www.bartleby.com/73/766.html http://www.alhewar.com/Gibran.html