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 And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

He uses an antimetabole to tell Americans to come together to fix its problems.

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  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.

Kennedy has a positive outlook about how the people of the world can all join up to cure its main problems: poverty, disease, war and tyranny.

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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, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

He’s letting every country know that the United States will do what ever it takes to make sure it survives and keeps its liberty.

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  So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

He acknowledges that the country doesn’t agree as a whole on most of its views by saying “both sides”. Yet again he uses an antimetabole to tell the American people not to fear what is said.

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  Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

In this conclusion, he tries to appeal to everyone because he uses “citizens of the world”. He keeps up the positive attitude to tell everyone that they must go out and do good deeds and go about the world in a peaceful way.