Now, to preserve the general welfare, to see to it that the rights of the public are protected, and the liberty of the individual secured and encouraged as long as consistent with this welfare, and curbed when it becomes inconsistent therewith, it is necessary to invoke the aid of the Government.
Roosevelt argues for government intervention to protect public rights and individual liberties in a balanced manner.
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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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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
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