Obama's 2009 Inaugral Address ↑

A Return to These Truths

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths.

Barack Obama, 2009, from the speech “Obama’s 2009 Inaugral Address”