I am particularly glad to see such a society as this flourishing as your society has flourished, because the future welfare of our Nation depends upon the way in which we can combine in our men—in our young men—decency and strength.
Roosevelt stresses the importance of combining decency and strength in the character of young men for the nation's future.
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Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
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