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>> franklin responded a republic if you can keep it. if you can keep it. none of us really ever realized -- at least i didn't, maybe you did -- i didn't realize how fragile this thing was until september 11th. made me pay attention. we weren't promised that life was going to be easy. we weren't promised happiness. we were promised the ability to pursue it. no one said you would get there. no one said it would be easy. in fact the founders didn't think it would even last this thing. franklin's response seems to indicate that was the sentiment of the room that day and that was day number one and...

>> franklin responded a republic if you can keep it. if you can keep it. none of us really ever realized -- at least i didn't, maybe you did -- i didn't realize how fragile this thing was until september 11th. made me pay attention. we weren't promised that life was going to be easy. we weren't promised happiness. we were promised the ability to pursue it. no one said you would get there. no one said it would be easy. in fact the founders didn't think it would even last this thing. franklin's response seems to indicate that was the sentiment of the room that day and that was day number one and...