480 Presidential Addresses 



This is not a soft and easy creed to preach. It 

 is a creed willingly learned only by men and women 

 who, together with the softer virtues, possess also 

 the stronger; who can do, and dare, and die at 

 need, but who while life lasts will never flinch from 

 their allotted task. You farmers, and wage-workers, 

 and business men of this great State, of this mighty 

 and wonderful Nation, are gathered together to-day, 

 proud of your State and still prouder of your Na- 

 tion, because your forefathers and predecessors have 

 lived up to just this creed. You have received from 

 their hands a great inheritance, and you will leave 

 an even greater inheritance to your children, and 

 your childrens' children, provided only that you 

 practice alike in your private and your public 

 lives the strong virtues that have given us as a 

 people greatness in the past. It is not enough 

 to be well-meaning and kindly, but weak; neither 

 is it enough to be strong, unless morality and 

 decency go hand in hand with strength. We 

 must possess the qualities which make us do our 

 duty in our homes and among our neighbors, and in 

 addition we must possess the qualities which are 

 indispensable to the make-up of every great and 

 masterful nation the qualities of courage and 

 hardihood, of individual initiative and yet of power 

 to combine for a common end, and above all, the 

 resolute determination to permit no man and no set 

 of men to sunder us one from the other by lines of 

 caste or creed or section. We must act upon the 

 motto of all for each and each for all. There must 



