I found the following Roosevelt quote while rummaging through some of my old files. It humbled me to think of how little I actually do… so many others are active and unsung heros in the cause of freedom. Like Murray Sabrin, for example, from New Jersey who is a “Ron Paul Republican” running for senate. I wonder what would happen if all of the Ron Paul revolutionaries started backing heros like this on a state-by-state basis. I think of Professor Sabrin and Dr. Paul as “in the arena”:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910