General Slocum did his first great public service when the crisis called not primarily for the softer and milder, but for the sterner and harder virtues; and we can not afford in this day of material luxury, in this day when civilization tends to make life easy, to ignore those hard and stern virtues.
He emphasizes the importance of hard virtues in times of material luxury and ease.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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