In response to Havel's question if we should stop doing this, he replies:
"Mr. President, dear Václav. Politics is a service. We, as a family, have experienced it for almost a thousand years. You were elected President of the Republic for the second time. You didn't have to, but since you took on that service, the hard service and the ever harder service should oblige you to serve. Only if there are some quite extraordinary circumstances can you get out of that service, but otherwise your duty is to serve."
Czech society is in vital need of people of similar principles. They have it in their nature. It is usually the old businessmen who have values in them, who create them and pass them on to their descendants, who build on them and develop them further. They start and develop something that will have increasing, passed on value in the future. This determines the quality of life and the future of society. If these values disappear, the society will disappear, with deserved consequences. JŠ
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