it has not been the path for the fainthearted. for those who prefer leisure over work or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. rather, it has been the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things celebrated. but more often, and women obscure in their labor who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. for us they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life for us. they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west. endured the last of the whip, and plowed the hard earth for us. they fought and died in places like concord and gettysburg normandy and kazan. time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands raw so that we might live a better life. they saw america as bigger than the of our individual ambitions. greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. this the journey we continue today. we remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on earth. our workers are no less productive than when this cri

it has not been the path for the fainthearted. for those who prefer leisure over work or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. rather, it has been the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things celebrated. but more often, and women obscure in their labor who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. for us they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life for us. they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west. endured the last of the whip, and plowed the hard earth for us. they fought and died in places like concord and gettysburg normandy and kazan. time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands raw so that we might live a better life. they saw america as bigger than the of our individual ambitions. greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. this the journey we continue today. we remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on earth. our workers are no less productive than when this cri