lands. Across the world, we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes,
our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent, who are building
democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause. The American people
have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in
an unmistakable chorus, you have cast your votes in historic numbers, you
have changed the face of congress, the presidency, and the political
process itself. Yes, YOU, my fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now
WE must do the work the season demands. To that work I now turn with ALL
the authority of my office. I ask the congress to join with me; but no
president, no congress, no government can undertake THIS mission alone.

My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.
I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service,
to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company
with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much
to be done. Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young
in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too. In serving we recognize
a simple, but powerful, truth: we need each other, and we must care for
one another. Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate
ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution,
and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by
the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate,
might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation
can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity;
an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic
journey must go forever upward.

And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century,
let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and let
us work until our work is done. The Scripture says: "And let us not be