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July 27, 1971
SUGGESTED REMARKS: DELEGATES TO BOYS NATION
It has never been easy to be a man of conscience, to be the man
who advances the progress of tomorrow's America because he knows
what is right about the America of today and of yesterday. And, though
change is steady and sure in a conscientious nation, it is never easy
for the individual to be a man of patience so that he can persuade,
debate and peacefully promote the ideas he believes in. But the give
and take of democracy still remain our strength and our hope.
All of you know the sweet and sour taste of debate -- sometimes
you win, sometimes you lose -- but through Boys Nation you have cer-
tainly come to know much more. You have certainly learned that as
individuals are diverse, SO must a nation be diverse. You know that a
consensus of diverse persons is a truly remarkable and beautiful thing
- a unity without constraint, progress free from fear because what
we do together as a free Nation is better than what any of us could do
alone for an unfree Nation.
Of course, many will scoff at your faith in America, at your
orderly attempts to better America at the expense of no one but for the
benefit of everyone. If they do, you can remind them that America was
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