The Only Lost Cause Is One We

Isn't It The Moment Of Most Profound Doubt That Gives Birth To New Certainties? Perhaps Hopelessness Is The Very Soil That Nourishes Human Hope; Perhaps One Could Never Find Sense In Life Without First Experiencing Its Absurdity.

We Live In The Postmodern World, Where Everything Is Possible And Almost Nothing Is Certain.

When A Person Tries To Act In Accordance With His Conscience, When He Tries To Speak The Truth, When He Tries To Behave Like A Citizen, Even In Conditions Where Citizenship Is Degraded, It Won't Necessarily Lead Anywhere, But It Might. There's One Thing, However, That Will Never Lead Anywhere, And That Is Speculating That Such Behavior Will Lead Somewhere.

Human Rights, Human Freedoms... And Human Dignity Have Their Deepest Roots Somewhere Outside The Perceptible World... While The State Is A Human Creation, Human Beings Are The Creation Of God.

My Dear Fellow Citizens: For Forty Years You Have Heard From My Predecessors On This Day Different Variations Of The Same Theme: How Our Country Flourished, How Many Millions Of Tons Of Steel We Produced, How Happy We All Were, How We Trusted Our Government, And What Bright Perspectives Were Unfolding In Front Of Us. I Assume You Did Not Propose Me For This Office So That I, Too, Would Lie To You.