Barack Obama

We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.

We come together at a crossroads between war and peace, between disorder and integration, between fear and hope.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.

The memory of the morning of August 6, 1945, must never fade.

It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy.

Democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders quarreled and compromised, and expected us to do the same.

A world in which one percent of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99 percent will never be stable.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.