Très beau discours de Barack Obama plus tôt aujourd’hui (en anglais | en français). Beaucoup de choses ont déjà été écrites à son sujet. Personnellement, si je ne devais en retenir que trois extraits, ce serait ceux-ci:
« The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. »
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« … people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy… »
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« Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. »
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