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dare to be great, that accept with confidence a place 

 of leadership in the world. All our people should 

 take that position, but especially of California, you 

 of the Pacific Slope, for much of our expansion must 

 go through the Golden Gate, and inevitably you who 

 are seated by the Pacific must take the lead in and 

 must profit by the growth of American influence 

 along the coasts and among the islands of that 

 mighty ocean, where east and west finally become 

 one. 



The citizen that counts, the man that counts in 

 our life, is the man who endeavors not to shirk diffi 

 culties but to meet and overcome them, is the man 

 who endeavors not to lead his life in the world's soft 

 places, not to walk easily and take his comfort, but 

 the man who goes out to tread the rugged ways that 

 lead to honor and success, the ways the treading of 

 which means good work worthily done. 



What father or what mother here, if capable of 

 taking the right view, does not wish to see his or her 

 children grow up trained, not to flinch but to over 

 come, trained not to avoid whatever is hard and 

 rough and difficult, but to go down into the hurly- 

 burly of actual life and win glory in the arena, heed 

 less of the dust and the sweat and blood of the con 

 test? 



You men of the West, the older among you, came 

 here and hewed out your own fates for yourselves. 

 The younger among you are the heirs of the men 

 who did this, and you can not, unless you are false 

 to your blood, desire to see the Nation, which is but 



