Yet, great as was Roosevelt in all these matters, it
was not so much the qualities just enumerated which
make, and will continue to make, his memory live in
America. Others could rival him or surpass him on the
political stage. He made good citizenship an art. He
never tired in enforcing by precept and example the duty
which men and women owe to the community. No man,
as his life and work showed, can be allowed to keep his
good citizenship in watertight compartments. He must
not say that he had done his best in his district or city or
State, or at Washington, and that no more was to be re-
quired of him. He must do his duty to the State in all
capacities. Duty accomplished in one sphere would not
relieve him of responsibility in the others.

Though Roosevelt was a Whig, an individualist, and a
man who hated over-centralisation, abhorred administra-
tive tyranny, and loathed Etatism, he never failed to pay
due homage to the nation personified. To him the Gov-
ernment as representing the community, was something
sacred and revered, not merely a committee to manage
tram-lines, roads, and drains. Treason to the State was
to him the greatest of crimes. When he talked of the
National Honour, he meant something very real and
definite, and was not merely indulging in a rhetorical
flourish. Good citizenship was indeed to Roosevelt a
religion, as in a rougher and less conscious way it was to
Cromwell and to Lincoln.

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