Our prime need as a nation is that every American should understand and work with his fellow-citizens, getting into touch with them, so that by actual contact he may learn that fundamentally he and they have the same interests, needs, and aspirations.
In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt emphasizes the national necessity for citizens to engage with one another to recognize shared fundamental interests.
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The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
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