To be a good husband or good wife, a good neighbor and friend, to be hard-working and upright in business and social relations, to bring up many healthy children—to be and to do all this is to lay the foundations of good citizenship as they must be laid.
From a speech on the strenuous life, Roosevelt defines the fundamental duties of individuals that contribute to a strong society.
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