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American Ideals, Vol. 1 of 2: And Other Essays, Social and Political (Classic Reprint)
American Ideals Vol 1 of 2 And Other Essays Social and Political - Classic Reprint Author:Theodore Roosevelt PREFACE IT is not difficult to be virtuous in a cloistered and negative way. Neither is it difficult to succeed, after a fashion, in active life, if one is content to disregard the considerations which bind honorable and upright men. But it is by no means easy to combine honesty and efficiency; and yet it is absolutely necessary in order to do a... more »ny work really worth doing. It is not hard, while sitting in one's study, to devise admirable plans for the betterment of politics and of social conditions; but in practice it too often proves very hard to make any such plan work at all, no matter how imperfectly. Yet the effort must continually be made, under penalty of constant retrogression in our political life. No one quality or one virtue is enough to insure success; vigor, honesty, common sense,-all are needed. The practical man is merely rendered more noxious by his practical ability if he employs it wrongly, whether from ignorance or from lack of morality; while the doctrinaire, the
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