I want each of you boys, and the girls just as much, and each of you young men and young women, to have the qualities without which people may be amiable and pleasant while things go well, but without which they can not succeed in times of stern trial.
Roosevelt encourages young people to develop resilience and strength for challenging times.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
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