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It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy,
who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold
and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers,
and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized
and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
This is your victory.
I know you didn’t do this just to win an election.
I know you didn’t do it for me.
You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead.
For even as we celebrate tonight,
we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime:
two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
Even as we stand here tonight,
we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq
and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep
and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors’ bills
or save enough for their child’s college education.
There’s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build,
and threats to meet, alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long.
Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term.
But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts.
There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President.
And we know the government can’t solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face.
I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation,
the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years
— block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.
This victory alone is not the change we seek.
It is only the chance for us to make that change.
And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.
It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility,
where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything,
it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.
Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship
and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Let’s remember that it was a man from this state
who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House,
a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.
Those are values that we all share. |
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