The one great reason for our having succeeded as no other people ever has, is to be found in that common sense which has enabled us to preserve the largest possible individual freedom on the one hand, while showing an equally remarkable capacity for combination on the other.
This quote reflects Roosevelt's belief in the balance between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
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