I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

What convinces is conviction.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.