Our country has been populated by pioneers, and therefore it has in it more energy, more enterprise, more expansive power than any other in the wide world. The men who founded and built up this republic had to show the qualities of daring, endurance, and far-sightedness, of eager desire for victory and stubborn refusal to accept defeat, which are essential to success for the nation as for the individual. They had to show not only the qualities of the successful soldier, but the qualities of the successful merchant, the successful manufacturer, the successful farmer; for the nation was founded by men who had to draw on the resources of their own strong hearts and brains, and who had to rely upon the exercise of the fullest individual initiative, combined with the power to act in combination when necessary.