There are critics so feeble and so timid that they shrink back when this Nation asserts that it comes in the category of the nations who dare to be great, and they want to know, forsooth, the cost of greatness and what it means.
Roosevelt addresses the fears of critics regarding national greatness and the costs associated with it.
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