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- Ladies and gentlemen...
- Just take it easy.
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I give you
the next President of the United States!
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Benjamin K Arthur!
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Mr Chairman.
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Delegates.
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My fellow Americans.
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It is with great humility,
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albeit with enormous pride
and with a sense of the job to be done,
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that I most humbly and most gratefully
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accept this nomination
for the highest office in our land.
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It is with a full awareness
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that the four years
that lie ahead for this country
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are, in a sense, the crucial years.
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The years...
If I may borrow Mr Churchill's phrase,
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the years of decision.
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And, if I may be
permitted a phrase of my own,
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the years of striving!
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For it is not
what has been done in the past,
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nor what may be done against
the far horizons of some distant future,
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but what will be done now!