Reclamation. Our country has a well defined policy of reclamation established under statutory authority. This policy should be continued and made a s… - Calvin Coolidge

To my mind, the great strength of your Society lies in its recognition of the necessity of discipline. We live in an impatient age. We demand results, and demand them at once. We find a long and laborious process very irksome, and are constantly seeking for a short cut. But there is no easy method of securing discipline. It is axiomatic that there is no royal road to learning. The effort for discipline must be intensive, and to a considerable degree it must be lifelong. But it is absolutely necessary, if there is to be any self-direction or any self-control. The worst evil that could be inflicted upon the youth of the land would be to leave them without restraint and completely at the mercy of their own uncontrolled inclinations. Under such conditions education would be impossible, and all orderly development intellectually or morally would be hopeless. I do not need to picture the result. We know too well what weakness and depravity follow when the ordinary processes of discipline are neglected.

Không gì trên thế giới có thể thay thế sự kiên trì. Tài năng cũng không phải; bởi ngày nay việc người có tài nhưng không thành đạt đã trở nên quá phổ biến. Thiên tài lại càng không; hình ảnh thiên tài ẩn giấu đã trở thành câu ngạn ngữ ngày nay. Có học vấn cũng không thể, thế giới tràn ngập những người có học bị lãng quên. Chỉ riêng sự kiên trì và quyết tâm mới có tác dụng lớn.

The people who start to elect a man to get what he can for his district will probably find they have elected a man who will get what he can for himself.