Teddy Roosevelt: “But it is a shameful thing for a nation, if these memories stir it only to empty boastings, to a pride that does not…”

“But it is a shameful thing for a nation, if these memories stir it only to empty boastings, to a pride that does not shrink from present abasement, to that self-satisfaction which accepts the high resolve and unbending effort of the father as an excuse for effortless ease or wrongly directed effort in the son.”