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The ideals that are the starting point for every revolution find their truest expression in democracy. [...] It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better.

— Barack Obama

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My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.

We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.

But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.

The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.

Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

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