224 Presidential Addresses 



zen must be a good citizen in peace and in war. 

 He must have the decent and orderly virtues, and 

 he must have the essential manliness for the lack 

 of which no good intention can atone. It will be 

 a bad thing for the nation if ever we grow as a na 

 tion to submit to the suppression of efficiency and 

 morality, if we ever grow to accept the belief that 

 we are to have two camps, in one of which will be 

 grouped the men who mean well, but who don't 

 do things, and in the other the men who do things, 

 but who do not mean well. 



The art of successful self-government is not an 

 easy art for people or for individuals. It comes to 

 our people here as the inheritance of ages of effort. 

 It can be thrown away; it can be unlearned very 

 easily, and it surely will be unlearned if we forget 

 the vital need not merely of preaching, but of prac 

 ticing both sets of virtues if we forget the vital 

 need of having the average citizen not only a good 

 man, but a man. 



It is a fine thing to have on the Supreme Court 

 a man who dared venture all for the great prize of 

 death in battle when the country called for him, and 

 a man who, after the war was closed, did not 

 content himself with living an ignoble life on the 

 plea that he had done so well it was not necessary 

 to do more, but who continued to do his duty as a 

 citizen all the better because he had done it as a 

 soldier; the man who remembered that duty done, 

 to be of practical use, must serve not as an excuse 

 for not doing further duty, but as an incentive, as 



