Chiasmus in use

Chiasmus is a literary device. Read the explanation here. I loved the quotes given as example of chiasmus.

"...ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.

"...Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.." John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." John F. Kennedy

"Let's make sure that the Supreme Court does not pick the next president, and this president does not choose the next Supreme Court." Albert Gore Jr. at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America." [1] Jimmy Carter Farewell Address

"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself

"To be kissed by a fool is stupid; To be fooled by a kiss is worse." Ambrose Redmoon

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog." Dwight D. Eisenhower January 1958 speech to the Republican National Committee

"Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men." Line spoken by Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933):

Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed."

Croesus (dates back to the 6th century BC): "In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."

"In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!" Yakov Smirnoff

Chiasmus may be implied, as when Kermit the Frog says "Time's fun when you're having flies" or Mae West says "A hard man is good to find," or Jethro Tull's "In the beginning Man created God."

Chiasmus is not limited to an exchange of words; it can also involve the exchange of letters or syllables, as in Tom Waits' quote, "I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."