Several years ago, the King at the time told a friend how he had sent 14 of the brightest young men of Rumania to receive some training for future service in the government. He had sent 7 to England and another 7 to the United States of America, to study the respective political and even economic systems.

“The seven who went to England were very smart,” said the King, “and they now each have an important post in the leading councils of Bucharest.”

“What about the 7 you sent to America?” asked the friend.

“They were even smarter,” said the King. “They stayed there!”

Theodore Roosevelt Paid this tribute to America: “Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and handihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, safety first, instead of duty first, and the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

Thomas Paine reminded us: “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Abigail Adams told her husband, John: “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them!”

And Thomas Jefferson warned: “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”