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Going through the ship yesterday, in the engine rooms, storerooms, turrets, everywhere the thing that impressed me most was the all-importance of each man in his place: the all-importance of that man both knowing his work and feeling it a matter of keen personal pride to do it as well as it could possibly be done.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt reflects on the importance of pride and competence in performing one's duties aboard a ship.

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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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