Politics, I tell young people, only needs the participation of good men and women to become a profession as honorable as the cause it is intended to serve. Don't be so inward looking. Don't isolate yourselves from community and country. All of these were just causes. They were good fights.
Noble causes give our lives meaning.
They give even the most obscure lives historical importance. Even when our names have been forgotten the world still remembers that we were here. It is a great and just cause, and service in it will be an honor. I know, however, that to encourage even affluent young people, much less those whose daily existence is a struggle, we must first challenge ourselves to give them an example worth emulating. When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest ambition, and that all glory was self-glory.