As President of the United States I tell all Americans including illegal immigrants, although no one is illegal since we are a nation of immigrants and we are all immigrants and we are all equal under the law, that we face grave though not serious crises in the world today and I want to assure you that while no one can predict the future, we will overcome them.
We must be true to the founding principles of our great country, for it is they that set us apart. But we must remember that in the modern world, other countries, even our enemies, have their own founding principles they wish to be true to. And it is not in our interest, in the interest of peace and prosperity, that we be set apart. We must meet each other halfway and if that means redefining our principles,or writing new ones, so be it.
We must be firm but not stubbornly resolute, hard but not rigid, flexible but not pliable, conciliatory without conceding, willing to converse but not spout, assert without alleging, tell without revealing, negotiate without bargaining, differing and dissenting without disagreeing or being disagreeable, surrender without capitulation, submit without succumbing, change without deviating, altering but not varying, to some extent, but not not too little or too much, more or less, somewhat, sometimes, usually but not ofte, at times, generally. That is the only road to the future.
We are a nation of one for all and all for one, which after all is a nation where one by one we become all and all is one.
God bless each and every one of you and you all.
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