The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero’s deeds, but never looking down in his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence and in this world doing all that in his power lies, so that when death comes, he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he lived.
– Theodore Roosevelt, June 17, 1912
