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Show PITHY SAYINGS Of ROOSEVELT Every Utterance Filled with Suggestion, A Compilation well Worth Reading, A healthy republican government must rest upon Individuals, not upon classes or sections. Far and away the best prl.c that life offers Is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Mankind goes ahead but slowly, and it goes ahead mainly through each of us trying to do the best that Is in hhn, and to do It In the sanest way. The life or duty, not the life of mere case or meie pleasure,- that Is tbc kind of llle which makes the gieat man, as it 111al.es t lie gieat nation. The Government cannot supply the lack In any man of the qualities which must de ei mine In the last resort the man's success or failure. When all Is said and done, the rule of brotherhood remains as the Indispensable Indis-pensable prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive. Wc have In our scheme of government govern-ment no 100m for the man who does not wish to pay his way through llfo by what he does for himself and for the community. We must treat each man on his worth and merits asa man. c must see that each Is given a square deal, because he Is entitled to no moie and should reecho no less. If wewish to make the statu the lep-lcseulallve lep-lcseulallve arid exponent ami symbol of decency, It must be made through the decency, public and private, of the average citizen. 1 desire to see In this country the decent men strong and the strong men d.'ccnl, and until wc get that combination combi-nation in pretty good shape wc aic not going to be by any means as successful suc-cessful as we should be. To me the future seems full of hope, because although there are many con-Dieting con-Dieting tendencies, and although some of these tendencies of our present life arc for evil, yet on the whole, the tendencies ten-dencies for good arc in the ascendancy. In our own country, with Its many sided, hurrying, practical life, the place for clolsteicd virtue is far smaller small-er than Is the place for that essential manliness which, without losing Its line and lofty side, can yet hold Its own in the lough struggle with ihc foices of the world lound about us. The line of cleavage between good cillenshlp and bad citizenship sepa rates the rich man who docs well from the rich man who docs 111, the poor man of good conduct fiom Hie poor man of bad conduct. It Is an Infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, lo apply ap-ply to any man any test sae that or Ills personal worth, or to diaw between be-tween Iwo sets of men any distinction save the distinction of conduct. In the tlrst place, the man who makes a promise which he docs not intend in-tend to keep, and docs not try to keep, should rightly be adjudged to have foi felled Jn some degiee what should be every man's most picclous possession, - Ins honor.. Succeed? or course we shall succeed! I low can success fail to como 10 a laco nf masterful energy and icsolutencss which has a continent for the base, of Its domain, and which feels within its veins the thrill lhatcomes to generous souls when their strength stirs In them, and they know that the future Is theirs? 1 ask that this .nation go forward as it has gone forwaid In the past; I ask that It shape Its llfo in accordance wltli the highest ideals; I ask that our namu bo a synonym for truthful and fair dealing w ith all the nations of the world. |