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 a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle,
year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—
a struggle against the common enemies of man:
tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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