Moreover, the minute that a move is made in politics, the people who are helped and those who would help them grow to have a common interest which is genuine and absorbing instead of being in any degree artificial, and this will bring them together as nothing else would.
From an essay on the strenuous life, this passage explains how political action fosters genuine common interests and unity between those giving and receiving help.
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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.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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