As you did not win in a month or a year, but only after long years of hard and dangerous work, so the fight for governmental honesty and efficiency can be won only by the display of similar patience and similar resolution and power of endurance.
Roosevelt draws a parallel between the struggle for governmental honesty and the long fight for independence.
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One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
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