“ what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. ”
Barack Obama, Inaugural Address (20 January 2009). copy citation
| Author | Barack Obama |
|---|---|
| Source | Inaugural Address |
| Topic | imagination courage |
| Date | 20 January 2009 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28000/28000-h/28000-h.htm |
Context
“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions -- who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
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