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The part of his speech I got interested is "National strength can only be built on character". It means that nation is nothing more nor less than its citizenry. It is the people that make up the nation and, therefore, it cannot be stronger than its component parts. I like the way he said the words  "Show me a people composed of vigorous, sturdy individuals, of men and women healthy in mind and body; courteous, brave, industrious, self-reliant; purposeful in thought as well as in action; imbued with sound patriotism and a profound sense of righteousness; with high social ideals and a strong moral fiber; and I will show you a great nation." A nation that will not be submerged, A nation that will emerge victorious from the trials and bitter strife of a distracted world, a nation that will live forever, sharing the common task of advancing the welfare and promoting the happiness of mankind. he also said that "The Filipino is not inferior to any man of any race." that he means that we, Filipino should not let others ruled us.

In this statement :

"I am constrained to admit, have become dormant in recent years. If we compare our individual and civic traits with those that adorned our forefathers, we will find, I fear, that we, the Filipinos of today, have lost much of the moral strength and power for growth of our ancestors. They were strong-willed, earnest, adventurous people. They had traditions potent in influence in their lives, individually and collectively. They had the courage to be pioneers, to brave the seas, clear the forest and erect towns and cities upon the wilderness. They led a life of toil and communal service. Each one considered himself an active part of the body politic. But those traditions are either lost or forgotten. They exist only as a hazy-mist in our distant past."

In every word that he had said hit me to the core. Nowadays, people have nothing to do with the past. they forget how our great heroes fought for us.A period of deterioration has started and, unless we check it, we shall soon be on the down grade. We must revive them, for we need the anchorage of these traditions to guide and sustain us in the proper discharge of our political and social obligations. Freedom, no less than prosperity, has come to all of us, much more as a gift of heaven than as the fruit of our own hard efforts through a long period of suffering and privation. During the last  years life has been too easy for all of us. The youth of the land that did not take part in the death-struggles of their fathers nor have tasted the hardship of their lives, have led, from childhood, a life of ease and relative comfort, and are enjoying the blessings of liberty for the achievement of which we have done nothing and the lack of which we have not felt. Let us be realists. And let us above all be true to ourselves. The stakes are too high—our liberties, those very liberties for which the Filipino of yesterday fought and died, our happiness, and our very existence as a nation and as a race. Let us cast away pretense and futile pride. Let us look at ourselves stripped of the veil and trappings with which in our vanity we often cover ourselves. That we are at all capable of doing this and detecting the weaknesses from which we suffer is vindication enough of the excellence of our race.Among social decorum that has fast becoming prostituted by a mistaken conception of modernity. This is particularly true among to us young. A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in them a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are the equivalent of good breeding. They do not realize that civility is the consummate flower of culture and civilization, for it embraces all the virtues and in turn sustains and enhances them all. I loathe to accept our social responsibilities. They look upon the Government as the fountain source of living, to which they are reluctant to give anything, but from which all of us expect every bounty and help. All of are afraid to exert ourselves in toil. All of us prefer a life of ease and take pride in it, not knowing that there is dignity only in work. That"s all,