Only thus will it be possible to train the commanders, the quartermasters, the commissaries, the doctors, so that they may by actual experience learn to do their duties, as naval officers by actual experience have learned to do theirs.
Roosevelt highlights the importance of experiential learning for military personnel.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
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