“The old pioneer days are gone, with their roughness and their hardship, their incredible toil and their wild half-savage romance. But the need for pioneer virtues remains the same as ever... We must insist upon courage and resolution upon hardihood, tenacity, and futility in resource, go we must insist upon the strong virtues and we must insist no less upon the virtues of self-restraint, self-mastery.”
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