It is now December and they are ready to leave the place where they were born – and although they have never known the ocean, nor touched it – they like their parents are of the sea. And so one day they’ll take the plunge and go home for the first time. -March of the Penguins.
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to be an American. - Dean Alfange
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Become the silent affirmation of the can-do American Spirit.
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves, and of the world they have lived in.
-William Penn (1644-1718)
--Some Fruits of Solitude
1693
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders.
-Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
--To James Warren,
1775
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
-Thomas Paine
--Rights of Man, I
1791
