Arizona republican., 1913-10-28
ROOSEVELT ON CHARTER
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! very poor is in large part not merely totally different from, but the exact l reverse of. the no less dangerous strain on the very rich; the dangers are the exast opposite one of the other: and nevertheless each day is q danger so serious that if not l glattpled with it may spell national ruin. Again, no old World commit mites arc immune from all sense of outside danger to anything like the extent that is true here; and what is true of danger from outside sources is true to an only less Ge- gree as regards risk and effort anG toll within; and no student of history needs to be told that immunity from danger, however desirable, always means that there is need of guard : | ing against the risk of softening Of 1 finer.
 Tn consequence, it is true that notwithstanding all our advantages end oportunities there is at least as much danger, not of crushing disaster but of slow decay or failure to ad- vance. so far as concerns our peoples here in the two Americas, as is the case among the nations of the Old World We cannot afford in vain glorious spirit to be blind to 1his patentIy ominious fact If we are true to ourselves, if we possess the wisdom and the virile strength to make the most of our opportunities. we have before us, in our several na- tions, a future which cannot be gen orally paralIeIed among Old Wori l nations whose opportunities are nec- esarily less. But if we are untrue to ourselves, if We sink into sIothful ease or make our ideals those of vapid or vicious excitement, then there is a chance that we shall make a failure all the more lamentable be- cause of the fact that such great success might have been ours. To avert this failure, and to achieve the success which is ours if we only have the power to grasp it, many things are necessary; but one thing above all others, character.
 No other trait, in any nation, can take the place of high average of personal character among the indi- viduals, the men and women, who make up that nation. 1 am a firm believer in using the power of the people in their collective capacity that is, through the government-to the fullest extent to further the common interest; and I hold that the ability thus to cooperate in effective action is one of the greatest tasks Iof the strength of individual charac- ter in a nation. But such combined action. such use of the powers of government in the interest of all citizens, can never succeed unless it
 is based on a high average of cha racter in the individual citizen. Governmental action can supplement. and thereby immensely increase. the productive efficiency of such indivd- uaI character; but it can never be a substitute for it; and if the average citizen is lacking in character, the govern entat system in which he is the predominant unit is certain to break down.
 By character I mean the sum of those qualities. distinct from the purely intellectual qualities, which are essential to moral efficiency. Among them are resolution, courage, energy. power of self-controI combined with fearIessness in taking the ini- lative and assuming responsibility. and a. just regard for the rights of others, together with unflinching de- i termination to oneself to succeed no matter what obstacles and barriers have to be beaten down-these qual- ities and qualities such as these, are what rise to our minds when we speak of a man or a woman as having character, in cOntradistinctiOn to one who possesses only intellect. There is. moreover. one quality which perhaps strictly speaking is. as much intellectual as moral but which is too often wholly lacking in men of high intellectual ability, and without which real character cannot exist namely, the fundamental gift of com- mon sense
 T am far from decrying intel feet. I join with the world in ad- miring it and paying homage to it. Without it. above all without it's highest expression, genius the world would move forward but slowly, and the purple patches in the gray gar ment of our actual lives would be sadly shorn of their glory. Never theless, exactly as strength comes before beauty, so character must ever stand above intellect, above genius Intellect is fit to be the most use full of servants; but it is an evil master, unless itself mastered by character. This is true of the indi- vidual man. It is far more true of the nation, of the aggregate of indi- | Viduals
 Yet it is truth of which men tend constantly to lose sight: and the American republics, north and south, have in the past shown again and again a curious forgetfurness of it. In my own country we tend to lay far too much emphasis on that indispensable but sided type of intellectual vigOr which shows itself -