Bill Clinton

2019.6.07(금)

 

We are fortunate to be alive / at this moment in history.

Never before / has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with /

so little internal crisis and so few external threats.

Never before have we had such a blessed opportunity and, therefore, / such a profound obligation

to build the most perfert union / of our founders' dreams.

 

Behind us / we can look back and see the great expanse of American achivement ; and before us /

We can see even greater, / grander frontiers of possibility.

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility /  for our pressent progress /  and prosperity.

We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over ther horizon.

And we should be filled with absolute determination to / make the most of it.

 

You know, when the framers finished / crafting our Constitution in Philadelphia, /

Benjamin Jamin Franklin stood in Independence Hall /and he reflected on the carving of the sun /

that was on the back of a chair / he saw.

The sun was low on the horizon. So he said this - he said, " I've often wondered whether that sun was rising / or setting. Today"

Franklin said, "I have the happiness to know / it's a rising sun" Today, Because each succeeding generation of Americas /

has kept the fire of freedom buring brightly, / lighting those frontiers of possibility, / we all still bask in the glow /

 

After 224 years, / the American revolution continues.

We remain a new natioin. And as long as our dreams outweight our memories, / America will be forever young.

That is our destiny. And this is our moment.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America!