Each one of us then who has an education, school or college, has obtained something from the community at large for which he or she has not paid, and no self-respecting man or woman is content to rest permanently under such an obligation.
Roosevelt asserts that those who receive an education owe a debt to society that must be repaid through good citizenship.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
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