The whole country has cause to fell pride in this attitude of sturdy independence, in this uncompromising insistence upon acting simply as good citizens, as good Americans, without regard to fancied--and improper--class interests.
Roosevelt expresses pride in the working class's independence and commitment to American citizenship over class interests.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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