Mask, Not What Your Country..

Dan Rather on Twitter

In 63 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero said in a speech, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather, what you can do for your country.”

In 1884, in a Memorial Day address Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, “We pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

In 1925, Khali Gibran wrote, “Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.”

In 1959, in an episode of the Walt Disney TV show “Zorro” the emissary from Spain said, “Ask not what Spain can do for you, but ask what you can do for Spain.”

In 1961, in his inaugural address Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

In 2020, Dan Rather wrote on Twitter, “Mask, not what your country can do for you. Mask is what you can do for your country.”

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Jim McAulay🍁says, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what’s for lunch?”