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The Task That Has Fallen To Us As Americans Is To Move The Conscience Of The World, To Keep Alive The Hope And Dream Of Freedom. For If We Fail Or Falter, There'll Be No Place For The World's Oppressed To Flee To. This Is Not A Role We Sought. We Preach No Manifest Destiny. But Like The Americans Who Brought A New Nation Into The World 200 Years Ago, History Has Asked Much Of Us In Our Time. Much We've Already Given; Much More We Must Be Prepared To Give.

The Most Fundamental Paradox Is That If We're Never To Use Force, We Must Be Prepared To Use It And To Use It Successfully. We Americans Don't Want War And We Don't Start Fights. We Don't Maintain A Strong Military Force To Conquer Or Coerce Others. The Purpose Of Our Military Is Simple And Straightforward: We Want To Prevent War.

I Will Stand On, And Continue To Use, The Figures I Have Used, Because I Believe They Are Correct. Now, I'm Not Going To Deny That You Don't Now And Then Slip Up On Something; No One Bats A Thousand.

And Let Us Never Forget That In Honoring Our Flag, We Honor The American Men And Women Who Have Courageously Fought And Died For It Over The Last 200 Years, Patriots Who Set An Ideal Above Any Consideration Of Self. Our Flag Flies Free Today Because Of Their Sacrifice.

America Stands Unique In The World: The Only Country Not Founded On Race But On A Way, An Ideal. Not In Spite Of But Because Of Our Polyglot Background, We Have Had All The Strength In The World. That Is The American Way.