“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol [grave], to which you are going.”
Running in parallel with this is Teddy Roosevelts 'Man in the Arena" speech. I had to memorize this in a history class taught by one of my mentors.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
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.”
― Dean Alfange
"The welfare of humanity has always been the alibi of tyrants."
Christine Anderson MEP
And like this well put sentiment states, we do not want it.
Somebody sums it up beautifully long before that.
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol [grave], to which you are going.”
-- Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV
Hell yes!!!
That's inspiring. By Dean Alfange, and American politician.
This should be mandatory teaching in all US schools
I did! Certainly wasn't part of the curriculum.
"Security without Liberty, is called Prison."
Running in parallel with this is Teddy Roosevelts 'Man in the Arena" speech. I had to memorize this in a history class taught by one of my mentors.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Great speech!
“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.” ― Dean Alfange