Thus is there a responsibility placed upon each one of us who will clearly realize that here, too, is a duty to posterity, whom we would fain guide to the truth as we see it, and to whose hands we commit our share in the history of our beloved country--that history so much of which was made under his leadership.
Lodge expresses the responsibility of the living to guide future generations in understanding history shaped by leaders like Roosevelt.
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So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.