The danger is now, will be, and always has been, the exact reverse; the danger is lest we do not take sufficient thought in preparing the men and material which will make our attitude in claiming to be a great nation respectable.
Roosevelt warns against complacency in military preparedness, stressing the need for readiness as a great nation.
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Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.
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