We The People

[Music] [Applause] from time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule that government by an elite group is superior to government for by and of the people we are a nation that has a government not the other way around and this makes us special among the nations of the earth our government has no power except that granted it by the people it is made up of men and women who raise our food patrol our streets man our minds and factories teach our children keep our homes

and heal us when we're sick professionals industrialists shopkeepers clerks cabbies and truck drivers they are in short we the people [Music] their patriotism is quiet but deep their values sustain our national life as for the enemies of freedom those who are potential adversaries they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the american people we will negotiate for it sacrifice for it we will not surrender for it now or ever we will maintain sufficient strength to prevail if need be knowing that if we do so we have the best chance of never having

to use that strength above all we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women it is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have it is a weapon that we as americans do have well i believe we the americans of today are ready to act worthy of ourselves ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves our children and our children's children we are a nation under god and i

believe god intended for us to be free you