(It is as if we set the race. We, through free and universal education,
provide the training of the runners. We give to them an equal start.
We provide in government the umpire of fairness in the race.
The winner is he who shows the most conscientious training,
the greatest ability and the greatest character.)

(It is not the critic who counts, not the man points out how the strong
man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 have never known neither victory nor defeat.
So, that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
have never known neither victory nor defeat.)

(I have no fears for the future, it is pride and hope.)

Get up now, get up while you can
And do something productive
You know you can be someone
Someone to look up to
Someone now