Elena, My Four Year Old,

Throughout Our History Americans Have Put Their Faith In God And No One Can Doubt That We Have Been Blessed For It. The Earliest Settlers Of This Land Came Came In Search Of Religious Freedom. Landing On A Desolate Shoreline, They Established A Spiritual Foundation That Has Served Us Ever Since.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction.

America's View Of Apartheid Is Simple And Straightforward: We Believe It Is Wrong. We Condemn It. And We Are United In Hoping For The Day When Apartheid Will Be No More.

May Every Day Be A New Beginning, And Every Dawn Bring Us Closer To That Shining City Upon A Hill.

Let The Fourth Of July Always Be A Reminder That Here In This Land, For The First Time, It Was Decided That Man Is Born With Certain God-given Rights; That Government Is Only A Convenience Created And Managed By The People, With No Powers Of Its Own Except Those Voluntarily Granted To It By The People. We Sometimes Forget That Great Truth, And We Never Should. Happy Fourth Of July.