THE MAGIC OF ANTITHESIS

Read these five famous, popular quotations. What makes them so memorable and quotable?

  1. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

    – Neil Armstrong, on first stepping on the moon, July 1969

  2. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

    – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 1961

  3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

    – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 1961

  4. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

    – Popular saying

  5. Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak of sterner days. These are not dark days: they are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

    – Winston Churchill, address, Harrow School, October 1941

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