Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 516 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President This is one of seven inscriptions carved on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy, Arlington National Cemetery. |
| SUBJECTS: | Enemies |