In this great free democracy it behooves all the people so to bear themselves that, not with their lips only but in their lives, they shall show their fealty to the great truth pronounced of old—the truth that Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Roosevelt calls for citizens to demonstrate their loyalty to the principles of righteousness through their actions.
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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.
I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
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