Unless we continue to keep a quick and lively sense of the great fundamental truth that our concern is with the individual worth of the individual man, this Government cannot permanently hold the place which it has achieved among the nations.
Roosevelt asserts that recognizing the individual worth of each person is crucial for the government's stability and success.
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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.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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