President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask
what you can do for your country."... Neither half of that statement expresses
a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals
of free men in a free society. "What your country can do for you" implies that
the government is the patron, the citizen the ward. "What you can do for your
country" assumes that the government is the master, the citizen the servant.
Damn right.
Ayn Rand had a pretty similar response.
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