{"id":968,"date":"2008-10-19T05:50:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T10:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:15:17","slug":"manvotional-the-american-boy-by-theodore-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-the-american-boy-by-theodore-roosevelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: The American Boy by Theodore Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nonwhite aligncenter wp-image-969 size-medium\" title=\"theodore roosevelt\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/10\/theodore-roosevelt-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Roosevelt portrait teddy with glasses looking tough.\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/10\/theodore-roosevelt-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/10\/theodore-roosevelt.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a speech, Roosevelt extolled the manly virtues that every boy and man should develop: hard work, courage, and a disposition to do good. The lack of men of character in the world today makes this speech relevant even today. As fathers or mentors, let us seek to raise up a generation of boys like the one TR describes. As men, let us seek to develop these traits ourselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man.<\/p>\n<p>The boy can best become a good man by being a good boy&#8211;not a goody-goody boy, but just a plain good boy.<\/p>\n<p>I do not mean that he must love only the negative virtues; I mean that he must love the positive virtues also. &#8216;Good,&#8217; in the largest sense, should include whatever is fine, straightforward, clean, brave and manly.<\/p>\n<p>The best boys I know&#8211;the best men I know&#8211;are good at their studies or their business, fearless and stalwart, hated and feared by all that is wicked and depraved, incapable of submitting to wrongdoing, and equally incapable of being aught but tender to the weak and helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the effect that a thoroughly manly, thoroughly straight and upright boy can have upon the companions of his own age, and upon those who are younger, is incalculable.<\/p>\n<p>If he is not thoroughly manly, then they will not respect him, and his good qualities will count for but little; while, of course, if he is mean, cruel, or wicked, then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society.<\/p>\n<p>He can not do good work if he is not strong and does not try with his whole heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not have a thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on the side of decency, justice and fair dealing.<\/p>\n<p>In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard: don&#8217;t foul and don&#8217;t shirk, but hit the line hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech, Roosevelt extolled the manly virtues that every boy and man should develop: hard work, courage, and a disposition to do good. 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