Kliphnote: JFK said this: "my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
Times have changed. Now it's what can my country do for me?
Give me, give me, etc.
"Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You"
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom
— symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as
well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same
solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters
ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human
life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears
fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights
of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of
God.
http://www.ushistory.org/documents/ask-not.htm 
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