Barack Obama

Our freedoms are dependent on an incredible group of men and women in uniform and their families who look out for us every single day.

We remain united with the Iraqi people and government in our combined efforts to destroy ISIL.

We must never be bystanders to injustice or indifferent to suffering.

Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time and, in many ways, the conscience of the world.

We're going to fill it with hundreds of our troops, our veterans, and their families.

Memory has become a sacred duty of all people of good will.

On this day and every day, we thank you.

We rejected that possibility . . . We said, no, we must continue believing in a future.

In the face of evil, we must summon our capacity for good.

We had the right to give up on humanity.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

We can finally say to so many of our military families, when you move, you'll no longer be forced to put the career you love on hold just because you and your family have chosen to serve this country.

In the face of cruelty, we must live with empathy and compassion.

Take a look at joiningforces.gov to find out how you can serve the troops, veterans, and military families in your community.

In the face of hate, we must love.

This is a big step forward, but we're not done yet.

We will use force abroad to protect the American people consistent with our values and all applicable law.

As a matter of policy, the United States therefore routinely imposes certain heightened policy standards that are more protective than the requirements of the law of armed conflict that relate to the protection of civilians.

All armed conflict invites tragedy.

Civilian casualties are a tragic and at times unavoidable consequence of the use of force in situations of armed conflict or in the exercise of a state's inherent right of self-defense.

The 'near certainty' standard is the 'highest standard we can set.'

We must secure sustained and unimpeded humanitarian aid to Syrians in need.

The protection of civilians is fundamentally consistent with the effective, efficient, and decisive use of force in pursuit of U.S. national interests.

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