Few Will Have The Greatness To Bend

And As Long As America Must Choose, That Long Will There Be A Need And A Place For The Democratic Party. We Democrats Can Run On Our Record But We Cannot Rest On It. We Will Win If We Continue To Take The Initiative And If We Carry The Message Of Hope And Action Throughout The Country. Alexander Smith Once Said, 'a Man Doesn't Plant A Tree For Himself. He Plants It For Posterity.' Let Us Continue To Plant, And Our Children Shall Reap The Harvest. That Is Our Destiny As Democrats.

Men And Women With Freed Minds May Often Be Mistaken, But They Are Seldom Fooled. They May Be Influenced, But They Cannot Be Intimidated. They May Be Perplexed, But They Will Never Be Lost.

Our Future May Lie Beyond Our Vision, But It Is Not Completely Beyond Our Control. It Is The Shaping Impulse Of America That Neither Fate Nor Nature Nor The Irresistible Tides Of History, But The Work Of Our Own Hands, Matched To Reason And Principle, That Will Determine Our Destiny. There Is Pride In That, Even Arrogance, But There Is Also Experience And Truth. In Any Event, It Is The Only Way We Can Live.

Virginia States' Rights, As Our Forefathers Conceived It, Was A Protection Of The Right Of The Individual Citizen. Those Who Preach Most Frequently About States' Rights Today Are Not Those Seeking The Protection Of The Individual Citizen, But His Exploitation. The Time Is Long Past — If Indeed It Ever Existed — When We Should Permit The Noble Concept Of States' Rights To Be Betrayed.

Just Because We Cannot See Clearly The End Of The Road, That Is No Reason For Not Setting Out On The Essential Journey. On The Contrary, Great Change Dominates The World, And Unless We Move With Change We Will Become Its Victims.