Top 10 Greatest Speeches
As the political season heats up, TIME takes a tour of history's best rhetoric
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Inaugural Address, 1961
In a relatively brief address that he spent two months crafting, Kennedy —at 43, the youngest president elected to the office and the first Roman Catholic — stressed the importance of national service.
Best Line: "My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
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