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Speech For My Countrymen

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My countrymen: In the exercise of your constitutional rights, you have placed upon my shoulders the sublime duty and honor to serve as Chief Executive of our Republic. I hold nothing but the greatest gratitude for your confidence, and the most solemn conviction to carry out your will: that will which has for innumerable generations driven our forefathers to feats of valor, from the songs and epics of old to our struggles for freedom from the chains of colonizers, occupiers, and tyrants. It is this same will that has brought me here before you today. May it be so that the confidence you have placed in me shall not have been in vain, that I shall give no account of failure on the day I leave this imperious office. Ours is a nation beginning to find its place in the world. We look back at the state of our country in the days of old and remember great hardship and toil. Likewise, we remember that fervent and undying hope nursed within us for a better world for ourselves and for those who shall come after us. Thus, it is with great pride that we speak of the exceptional economic growth that we have experienced in the past few decades. We find ourselves hailed in foreign lands for our industry and determination, that hardy spirit that propels our intrepid countrymen to unfamiliar shores and unyielding waves. We find the rich produce of our land stocked in the shelves and counters of foreign shops, and the establishments of our native land have also set up business amongst them.

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