The drunkard, the lewd liver, the coward, the liar, the dishonest man, the man who is brutal to or neglectful of parents, wife, or children—of all of these the shrift should be short when we speak of decent citizenship.
Roosevelt enumerates various moral failings and character flaws that he deems incompatible with decent citizenship.
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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.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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