He then took his stand as the foe of irredeemable paper, whether in war or peace, and of wild, unrestrained banking, a position from which he never wavered, and in support of which he rendered to the country some of his best service as a public man.
Lodge emphasizes the importance of sound financial principles and his unwavering stance against irredeemable paper currency.
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Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
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.