show up

Today is May 13th and today you graduate and the rules are about to change, and one of them is this: Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.

Aaron Sorkin, Syracuse Commencement Address (2012)

no turning back

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address (1917)