Theodore Roosevelt said...

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.