We must take our own side in this fight. We must be vigilant. We must persevere. And through all – it all, we must never, never cease to believe in the moral superiority of our own values: that we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair – and that even though we will inevitably take losses and suffer setbacks, through it all, as long as people of goodwill and courage refuse to lose faith in the West, it will endure.
I refuse to accept that our greatest triumphs cannot once again spring from our moments of greatest peril, as they have so many times before.
