The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

i62 THE PRESIDENT STARTS ON HIS TRIP
shall ultimately become, if we are to make this natiou in verj- fact the great republic,
the greatest power upon which the sun has ever shone. And no one quality is enough.
"FIRST OF ALL HONESTY"
First of all, honesty, and again remember I am using the word in its broadest
signification, honesty, decency, clean living at home, clean living abroad, fair
dealing in one's own family, fair dealing by the public.
And honesty is not enough. If a man is never so honest, but is timid, there is
nothing to be done with him. In the Civil War you needed patriotism in the soldier,
but if the soldier had patriotism, yet felt compelled to run away, you could not wiu
the fight with him. Together with honesty you must have the second of the virile
virtues, courage; courage to dare, courage to stand against the wrong and to fight
aggressively and vigorously for the right.
And if you have only honesty and courage you may yet be an entirely worthless
citizen. An honest and valiant fool has but a small place of usefulness in the body
politic. With honesty, with courage, must go common sense; ability to work with
your fellows, ability when you go out of the academic training, among those who
will accept your leadership on just one consideration, and that is if you show
yourself in the rough work of actual life fit and able to lead, and only so.
You need honesty, you need courage and you need common sense. Above all,
you need it in the work to be done in the building the corner stone of which we
laid' to-day, the law school out of vrhich are to come the men who at the bar and on
the bench make and construct, and in construing make the laws of this country', the
men who must teach by their actions to all our people that this is in fact essentially
a government of orderly liberty under the law.
NO COUNTERFEIT SHOW OF HOMAGE
The main feature of President Roosevelt's visit in Chicago
was his celebrated speech on the Monroe Doctrine at the
Auditorium, Thursday evening, April 2d. At 6:30 o'clock, a
dinner was tendered the President in the banquet hall of the
hotel, and in spite of the fact that it figured upon the day as
a very informal affair, it was a most brilliant function. When,
about two hours later, the familiar form of President Roose-
velt appeared upon the stage of the Auditorium Theater
there was a roar of welcome from the audience of six thou-
sand persons that had assembled to hear him. It was no