Fellow citizens, we have been called to leadership in a period of consequence. We have entered a great ideological conflict we did nothing to invite. We see great changes in science and commerce that will influence all our lives. And sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

As we look at these challenges, we must never give in to the belief that America is in decline, or that our culture is doomed to unravel. The American people k…

Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well? Before history is written down in books, it is written…

America is a great force for freedom and prosperity. Yet our greatness is not measured in power or luxuries, but by who we are and how we treat one another. So…

Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not 'melt the hearts' of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to …

First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, agai…

In the course of history, there have been three radicals: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.