Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people or whether extremist doctrines, the manipulation of the truth will define America's role in the world. At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul.
In a few months, I will, God willing, enter my 81st year of my life. And in many ways, the last few months have been some of the most disturbing of all. But I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
And so I say to you -- and so I say to you and to others around the world, whether you wish us well or ill, do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
-- Nobel Prize Winner, Humanitarian, Diplomat, Evangelical, Jimmy Carter
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