O America! My America! (feat. Jay Dref)

My dream is of a place and a time where America

Will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do

For your country do what you can with what you have where you are

A house divided against itself - cannot stand

If we ever forget that we are one nation under God

Then we will be a nation gone under

The time is always right to do what is right

Character in the long run is the decisive factor

In the life of an individual and of nations alike

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times

To risk his well-being to risk his body

To risk his life in a great cause

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

The price of greatness is responsibility

In the end your measured not by how much you undertake

But by what you finally accomplish

With self-discipline almost anything is possible

Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war

Never, never, never, give up to the victor belong the spoils

If you're going through hell, keep going

Freedom is never more than one generation

Away from extinction we didn't pass it

To our children in the bloodstream

It must be fought for, protected

And handed on for them to do the same

Or one day we will spend our sunset years

Telling our children and our children's children

What it was once like in the United States

Where men were free

History will be kind to me

For I intend to write it