Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Barack Obama: “Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of…”
On the recordAugust 28, 2009
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Eulogy at the Funeral Service for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in Boston
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