Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us. " If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.