The terms and examples on pages 58 and 59 of "Language of Composition"
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| Let us go forth to lead the land we love. | ||
| Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah. | ||
| not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are. | ||
| Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. | ||
| We shall support any friend, oppose any foe. | ||
| beliefs for which our forebears fought | ||
| We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. | ||
| But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. | ||
| Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. | ||
| My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. | ||
| United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do. | ||
| We are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century. | ||
| And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion. | ||
| In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. | ||
| But this peaceful revolution. | ||
| Let both sides explore... Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals... Let both sides seek to invoke... Let both sides unite to heed. | ||
| To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support. | ||
| with history the final judge of our deeds | ||
| Will you join in that historic effort? | ||
| Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but as a call to bear the burden. | ||
| To wage war, and to wage peace. | ||
| On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. |
