The Purpose Of Life Is To Contribute

Democracy Is No Easy Form Of Government. Few Nations Have Been Able To Sustain It. For It Requires That We Take The Chances Of Freedom; That The Liberating Play Of Reason Be Brought To Bear On Events Filled With Passion; That Dissent Be Allowed To Make Its Appeal For Acceptance; That Men Chance Error In Their Search For The Truth.

...if We Want To Meet The Obligations Of Our Civilization And Our Culture Which Are To Create Communities For Our Children That Provide Them With The Same Opportunities For Dignity And Enrichment As The Communities That Our Parents Gave Us, We've Got To Start By Protecting That Infrastructure; The Air That We Breathe, The Water That We Drink, The Landscapes That Enrich Us.

It Is An Unfinished Society That We Offer The World-a Society That Is Forever Committed To Change, To Improvement And To Growth, That Will Never Stagnate In The Certitude Of Ideology Or The Finalities Of Dogma.

It Is Not More Bigness That Should Be Our Goal. We Must Attempt, Rather, To Bring People Back To...the Warmth Of Community, To The Worth Of Individual Effort And Responsibility...and Of Individuals Working Together As A Community, To Better Their Lives And Their Children's Future.

It Will Help Erase The Idea That Politics Is A Second-rate Profession And A Dirty Business.