I choose not to be a common man.

It is my choice to be uncommon if I can.
I'll seek opportunity not security.
I do not wish to be kept a 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 suceed.
I'll refuse to live from hand to mouth.
I'll prefer the tye challenges of life to a a guaranteed existence.
I'll never cower before any master nor bend to any friend.
It is my heritage to stand erect and proud and unafraid,  to think and act for myself.

This I have done: createa visible tension between me and my loved ones.
Am not afraid am only true to myself.

                                                                Theodore Roosevelt.