I ask you to take that not as a conventional statement from the university platform, but to test it by thinking of the men whom you admire in our past history and seeing what are the qualities which have made you admire them, what are the services they have rendered.
Roosevelt encourages the audience to reflect on the qualities of admired historical figures to understand true greatness.
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