从一个地址在加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺
1903年5月7日
由西奥多·罗斯福（Theodore Roosevelt）
您不会在任何专利设备的大型战斗中获胜。在一个伟大的审判时期，您没有任何办法可以转动手和征服。当您的父亲和祖父在您面前征服时，您必须征服。您必须征服强者在历史上的每一次斗争中都征服了，并利用您在指挥下拥有的任何勇气，决议，勤奋，铁的意志，只有在您借鉴的情况下才能征服那些品质。
Another thing which you will remember very well, from ’61 to ’65, what my comrades here, the men who went into the great war and the men who went into the Spanish War or went to the Philippines will remember also, that there was a certain proportion of men who joined your ranks who for one reason or another fell by the wayside. There were different reasons—some for whom one simply felt an entirely respectful pity, who lacked the stamina to be able to stand the hard work, and it was mighty hard work. In the lesser war there was trouble that there was not in the big war, for there was not enough to go around. Among others the man would come around who wanted to be a hero right off, but did not want to do the other work of the moment. I recollect perfectly in my regiment, a young fellow joined, and on the second day he came to me and said: “Colonel, I came down here to fight for my country, and they are treating me like a serf, and making me dig kitchen sinks.” His Captain, who was a large man from New Mexico, explained to him that he would go right on and dig kitchen sinks; that that was what his business was at the moment, and that if he dug them well we would see to the hero business later. The man who did well in the army in those days was, as a rule, the man who did not wait to do well until something big occurred, but who did his duty just as his duty came, during the long marches, during the weary months of waiting in camp, did his duty just exactly as in the battle. He was the man on whom you relied, whom you trusted, whom you wanted to have with you in your troop, as your bunky, whatever it was, he was the man you wanted around.
公民身份完全一样。在先驱时代完全一样。开拓者，男人和女人都面临着像大军的男人一样的困难，对您，那一代人和你的妻子的人，也有同样的艰辛，磨碎的辛劳是同样的几年经常看起来毫无结果的努力，同样的铁和同样的终极胜利，如果我们要取得成功，我们必须表现出与大军的男人所表明的相同的品质，先驱者表明，所有男人和所有女人都表明已经表明谁适合成为父亲和母亲的剧烈状态。
我恳求我的同胞没有表现出任何特殊的光彩或特殊的天才，而是普通的矮小的普通品质，在整个国家的总体上成功，并为个人拼写成功。请记住，做伟大的英雄工作的机会可能会或可能不会来。如果没有来，那么我们所能值得称赞的就是每天责任的忠实绩效。这就是我们一生中大多数人都可以做的机会，这是足够的，因为这是开始的，因为这意味着大多数对国家的完成，如果出现英雄主义的时间确实来了，您可能会确保那些表现出来的人最有可能是在履行职责时平均履行职责的人。
