They are the humdrum hirelings--the dumb followers.
The pitiful part of it all is that they could have succeeded had they but taken stock of themselves when the taking was good.

But while there is life there is hope--likewise a chance.

_It is up to us._ One of the startling things about men of initiative is the way they come forward in times of trouble.

We don't have to point to Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.

We can look around us.