The man who carries the hod or the axe or the coupling-pin; the man who holds the plow or the hammer; the average man who does the average work of the Nation, is the man upon whom our whole political and social fabric rests.
Roosevelt underscores the foundational role of the average worker in the nation's political and social structure.
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