In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
Roosevelt outlines the essential conditions for a robust nation, emphasizing individual virtue, vigorous living, and the proper upbringing of children.
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