Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman...

People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues o...

the successful performance of political duty depends absolutely upon the successful performance of domestic, of social duty.

Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it.