What I desire to see you feel is that you must have a high ideal; that you must also apply that ideal in practice; and above all things to avoid the state of mind in which you preach an impossible idealism, and make amends for it by not practicing any idealism at all.
Roosevelt stresses the necessity of applying high ideals in practice while avoiding unrealistic idealism.
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