THE GREATNESS COMES.

 

"There is many fine careers.
This country needs good farmers, good businessmen,
good plumbers,
good carpenters ...

I remember my old man ...
I think some called him "little man", "common man" ...

He did not consider himself that way ...

You know what he was?

He was a streetcar motorner, first. 
Then, was a farmer. 
Then, he had a lemon ranch.

It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you...

He sold it, before they found oil there.

(Audience laughter).

Then, he was grocer.

And he was a great man, because he DID HIS JOB.

And every job counts!

Up to the tail, regardless of what happens.


Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother ...

Well, I guess all of you could say this about your mother...

My mother was a saint.

When I think of her, with two boys dying of tuberculosis,
and she seeing each of them die ...  and when they die... 

(Sigh)

Yes, she will have no books written about her ... But, she was a saint.


Now, however, we look to the future,
and I remember something that Theodore Roosevelt wrote,
when his first wife died, in his twenties...

He thought the light was gone from his life, forever ...

But he went on. And not only he became president, but as an ex-president, 
He served his country, always in the arena.
Tempestous, strong. 
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. 
But, he was a man!

And as I leave, I think this is an example all of us should remember.

Sometimes we think that
When things don't happen,
or don't go the right way...

When someone dear to us dies,
or when we lose an election,
or when we suffer a defeat

That All is ended...

Not true!

It is only a beginning, always!

'Cause greatness comes,
not when things go always good for you.

Greatness comes
When you're really tested
When you take some knocks,
disappointments,
when sadness comes ...

Because
Only if you've been to the deepest valley...
You'll ever know
How magnificent it is to be
On the highest mountain!


So, I say to you on this occasion:
We leave, proud of people who stood by,
and worked for us,
And served this government and this country.

We want you to continue serving this government,
If that is what you wish.

Remember:
Always give your best!
Never be discouraged!
Never be petty!


Always remember:
Others may hate you,
But those who hate you don't win
Unless you hate them.

And then, you destroy yourself.


Ando so, we leave,
With high hopes
Good spirits
and deep humility.

And I say to each one of you:
Not only we will always remember you,
But you will always be in our hearts
And will be in our prayers

Only then, you'll find
What we Quakers call
Peace at the center. "


"Farewell Scene"
from the Movie: Nixon -
Speech told by sir Anthony Hopkins.

Writen by Oliver Stone, Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivelle.

Listen to the Choir of Angels, at the End of the scene, as the credits goes up.

Sung by: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Song: SHENANDOAH (popular american) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJW8JHUzz7M

decency.