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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe in order to assure the survival of liberty." -- President Kennedy


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Answer 1

That was quite touching and my heart goes out to all our brave soldiers that are involved in military actions around the world. I must say that I am anti-war........but I do feel for these soldiers everywhere. I just wish the powers that be cared as much as we the people. They will never know what these people have to endure. They are all BLUE BLOODS and have never had to want for anything one day in their aristocratic lives. Yet, they use our men and women to increase their wealth and power. I say start the draft and let all have to serve one year over seas. Even the fortunate ones, the daughters and son's of the rich. Let the politicians children have to endure the hardships that these men and women endure everyday of their life.

Answer 2

There was no use in saying "We don't want it; we won’t have it; our forebears left Europe to avoid these quarrels; we have founded a new world which has no contact with the old. "There was no use in that. The long arm reaches out remorselessly, and every one's existence, environment, and outlook undergo a swift and irresistible change. What is the explanation, Mr. President, of these strange facts, and what are the deep laws to which they respond? I will offer you one explanation - there are others, but one will suffice.

The price of greatness is responsibility. If the people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, struggling with the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the movement of the world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans: but one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilised world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes.

If this has been proved in the past, as it has been, it will become indisputable in the future. The people of the United States cannot escape world responsibility. Although we live in a period so tumultuous that little can be predicted, we may be quite sure that this process will be intensified with every forward step the United States make in wealth and in power. Not only are the responsibilities of this great Republic growing, but the world over which they range is itself contracting in relation to our powers of locomotion at a positively alarming rate.

Partial quote, Sir Winston Churchill, The Price of Greatness is Responsibility, to Harvard University

Answer 3

If you want my opinion, the unvarnished truth is that this statement is simply political rhetoric. The very thought that we would have an infinite obligation "to assure the survival of liberty" around the globe is both frightening and mind boggling.