The following quote was not written by me, but it is a quote from the Autobiography Forward written by President Theodore Roosevelt.
In it, is the balance of the John Kennedy maxim and the sage wisdom of Abraham Lincoln in not asking what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, and, with malice toward none and charity toward all.
The world is a reality where one can not have peace without war, and one can not have war without peace.
The quote below is something which should be taught to all children in meaning, and something they would be required to know before being allowed to vote, graduate or hold any public office.
It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most
important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets
of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas, useless
enough.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon;
it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy
persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil
temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.
Justice mong the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be
brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love
peace, but who love righteousness more than peace. Facing the immense
complexity of modern social and industrial conditions, there is need to
use freely and unhesitatingly the collective power of all of us; and
yet no exercise of collective power will ever avail if the average
individual does not keep his or her sense of personal duty, initiative,
and responsibility.
There is need to develop all the virtues that have
the state for their sphere of action; but these virtues are as dust in a
windy street unless back of them lie the strong and tender virtues of
a family life based on the love of the one man for the one woman and on
their joyous and fearless acceptance of their common obligation to the
children that are theirs.
There must be the keenest sense of duty, and
with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of
shirking the hard work of the world, and at the same time delight in
the many-sided beauty of life. With soul of flame and temper of steel we
must act as our coolest judgment bids us.
We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war
against the wrong-doing.
We must be just to others, generous to others,
and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to
withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand. With gentleness and
tenderness there must go dauntless bravery and grim acceptance of labor
and hardship and peril.
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto;
but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain
himself as not to be a burden to others.
It is a reality of what this blog has preached in RESPONSIBLE LIBERTY is the only measure which continues a Republican form of Government, which is the majority rule, but that rule is governed by the rights of the majority.
Each Citizen's rights end where the other Citizen's rights begin, and that above all and through all is Societal Law, in which all laws are based in the protection of the family unit of husband and wife, for the procreation of the children who will inherit a righteous, just, adult and free land built with the knowledge of respecting the sacrifices of those generations before it.
Without this, America is doomed. She is a cadaver in grave only to rot in this Age of Obama and never to be raised from her sinful dead to a new life consciously based in Scriptural reality that one governs the nation by the individual first governing their individual hearts.
This is the Continentalist Declaration for America.
We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our
several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can
live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich man cannot live
dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and yet we must judge
rich man and poor man alike by a standard which rests on conduct and not
on caste, and we must frown with the same stern severity on the mean and
vicious envy which hates and would plunder a man because he is well off
and on the brutal and selfish arrogance which looks down on and exploits
the man with whom life has gone hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
SAGAMORE HILL, October 1, 1913.
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