Among recent postal advances the success of rural free delivery wherever established has been so marked, and actual experience has made its benefits so plain, that the demand for its extension is general and urgent.
Roosevelt highlights the success of rural free delivery in the postal service and the public's demand for its expansion.
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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.
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