Hammer

"I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvil or a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammer, whether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education."
--John F. Kennedy