Each man or woman must remember his or her duty to all around, and especially to those closest and nearest, and such remembrance is the best possible preparation for doing duty for the State as a whole.
Roosevelt emphasizes that fulfilling personal duties to those nearby serves as the best foundation for civic duty to the state.
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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.
The boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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