My speech today isn't about me. It's about all of you. You're entering your adulthood at a truly special moment in American history. I believe deep in my heart that it's actually going to be your generation that saves our country.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. He was the founder of Dubai, but he may as well have been speaking about our generation of Americans.
When our nation was born in 1776, we were a nation of underdogs. Our Founding Fathers stood up to the most powerful empire in the world, declared their independence, and then somehow turned assertion into reality.
Though I'm talking about our own Founding Fathers, I'll start with a quote often attributed to the founder of Dubai, illustrating the cyclical nature of societal progress and challenges.
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