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· .. had I.mfJicient courage to nuucl, their dreams; America grew-Am.er;CI( became great. Their Rtrong s[lirit and ambition conquered [or them the Il.Odile plll;IIR. Faitll in the Jutllre lind in their God slwrpell.fHlthe eflge,~oj their litulUlerillg «xes, Their "igh hopes harnessed the stream.s; wul determine- tion, II r(;ill to win, probed the eartl!. and drew tlcerejronc the grelltweldth oj the laud. America grcrv-clean lind strong-with her. roots fleep in, a belief in the If!or~hoj orilinllry men Wltl women. America has become great because oj her t:on.. firlellce in her tlestiny and ill her own hunum reeourceiutnee«. The real measure of a lI.aiion's ((baity to liee and: to prosper is the power oj ils people to [ace life wi,tlt the Sl)irit o] youth. Today, ollr "tition is challenged and defied because 1I1e believe in human. imlividualiRrn and [reedonc, - We believe ill America; we derive ,mlisJaction Jrom enr 1Wy oj liJe. We can preserve America - the democratic America o] our [orejathere - if roe live lip to our "at.ural potentialities 01 men mul malerials. But we can (10that only iJ 'we keep alive the legends aJllI the Jaith o] tire men . 1(;ho made us great •••