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Excerpt from A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt: 1901-1905
There be folk pliant to occasion; they are secretive before they are brave, and have a genius for merger. The jackrabbit, when threatened, can so accommodate himself with a condition as to seem to sink into the bare, brown earth; the tree-toad will turn the color of whatever he rests upon. This is for their safety. There be men who can bow instantly to events. F eeling the helm of some sudden new exigency, they will turn at full speed in half their length. Machiavelli speaks highly of this ability to ignobly match the hour one lives in, and preaches from it as from the very text of political success. Still that gift of convenience is the mark of the politician aiming at self-interest, rather than of the statesman who considers the broad advantage of a world. It belongs with one who strives to match his day. Mr. Roose velt strives to make his day match him, and his integrities are never supple nor convenient.
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