22/01/2013
.... Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real, they are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: They will be met...
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord...
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less....
It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame...
Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
This is the source of our confidence: the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
..let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
Thank you. God bless you.
