President Barack Obama reflects on Abraham Lincoln’s legacy ahead of America’s 250th birthday:
“We are the United States of America and there isn’t any dream beyond our reach, any obstacle that can stand in our way, when we recognize that our individual liberty is served, not negated, by pursuit of the common good.
That’s what Abraham Lincoln taught us.
That union is not simply a matter of law or accident of geography, but a moral commitment we make to our fellow citizens and to our shared future. That democracies endure not only because of constitutions or armies, but because free people choose, again and again, to bind their fates together. That only by maintaining a sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility—for ourselves and one another—can we do the work that must be done in this country. And that it is precisely when the climb is steepest that we relearn how to take the mountaintop, as one nation and one people.
That’s the very definition of what it means to be American. And together, that’s how we will do what Lincoln called on us to do. #obama
“We are the United States of America and there isn’t any dream beyond our reach, any obstacle that can stand in our way, when we recognize that our individual liberty is served, not negated, by pursuit of the common good.
That’s what Abraham Lincoln taught us.
That union is not simply a matter of law or accident of geography, but a moral commitment we make to our fellow citizens and to our shared future. That democracies endure not only because of constitutions or armies, but because free people choose, again and again, to bind their fates together. That only by maintaining a sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility—for ourselves and one another—can we do the work that must be done in this country. And that it is precisely when the climb is steepest that we relearn how to take the mountaintop, as one nation and one people.
That’s the very definition of what it means to be American. And together, that’s how we will do what Lincoln called on us to do. #obama
President Barack Obama reflects on Abraham Lincoln’s legacy ahead of America’s 250th birthday:
“We are the United States of America and there isn’t any dream beyond our reach, any obstacle that can stand in our way, when we recognize that our individual liberty is served, not negated, by pursuit of the common good.
That’s what Abraham Lincoln taught us.
That union is not simply a matter of law or accident of geography, but a moral commitment we make to our fellow citizens and to our shared future. That democracies endure not only because of constitutions or armies, but because free people choose, again and again, to bind their fates together. That only by maintaining a sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility—for ourselves and one another—can we do the work that must be done in this country. And that it is precisely when the climb is steepest that we relearn how to take the mountaintop, as one nation and one people.
That’s the very definition of what it means to be American. And together, that’s how we will do what Lincoln called on us to do. #obama
