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nation in any crisis, in any emergency, the very best ability to be found 

 within the nation, and that ability given with the utmost freedom, 

 given lavishly and generously, although to the great pecuniary loss of 

 the man giving it. There is not in my cabinet a man to whose financial 

 disadvantage it is not to sit in the cabinet. There is not in my cabinet 

 one man who does not have to give up something substantial, very 

 largely substantial sometimes, that it is a very real hardship for him 

 to give up, in order that he may continue in the service of the nation, 

 and have the only reward for which he looks or for which he cares, the 

 consciousness of having done service that is worth rendering. 



And I hope more and more throughout this nation to see the spirit 

 grow which makes such service possible. I hope more and more to see 

 the sentiment of the community as a whole become such that each man 

 shall feel it borne in on him, whether he is in public life or in private 

 life — mind you, some of the very greatest public services can be best 

 rendered by those who are not in public life — that the chance to do 

 good work is the greatest chance that can come to any man or any 

 woman in our generation, or in any other generation. That if such 

 work can be well done it is in itself the amplest reward and the amplest 

 prize. 



