Something can be done by good laws; more can be done by honest administration of the laws; but most of all can be done by frowning
resolutely upon the preachers of vague discontent; and by upholding the true
doctrine of self-reliance, self-help, and self-mastery. This doctrine sets
forth many things. Among them is the fact that though a man can occasionally be
helped when he stumbles, yet that it is useless to try to carry him when he
will not or cannot walk; and worse than useless to try to bring down the work
and reward of the thrifty and intelligent to the level of the capacity of the
weak, the shiftless, and the idle. It further shows that the maudlin
philanthropist and the maudlin sentimentalist are almost as noxious as the
demagogue, and that it is even more necessary to temper mercy with justice than
justice with mercy.
Theodore Roosevelt
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