"I don't want to be an average man under any circumstances.
I have the right to get out of line - if I can.
I wish for opportunities, not guarantees.
I don't want to be a kept citizen, humiliated and numb, because the government provides for me.
I want to encounter risks; long for something and achieve it; shipwreck and succeed.
I refuse to be compensated for my own motivation with a tip.
I'd rather confront the complexities of life than lead a protected existence;
I prefer the tense excitement of my own success to the dull calm of Utopia.
I will neither give away my freedom for charity nor my human dignity for a pittance.
I have learned to think and act for myself, to look the world straight in the eye, and to admit :
This is my creation.
All this is meant when we say: I am a free man."