You may stand your ground, refuse the bribe, uphold the flag, and be rated a fool and a failure, but they who rate you so will not understand that you have won a battle greater than all the triumphs of empires; you will keep alive in your soul true light and enduring beauty; you will hear the music eternally in the heart of the high enthusiast and have vision of ultimate victory that has sustained all the world over the efforts of centuries, that uplifts the individual, consolidates the nation, and leads a wandering race from the desert into the Promised Land.
VI If we are to justify ourselves in our time we must have done with dispensations.

Many honest men are astray on this point and think attitudes justifiable that are at the root of all our failures.

What is the weakness?
It is so simple to explain and so easy to understand that one must wonder how we have been ignoring it quietly and generally so long.

A man, as we have seen, acknowledges his flag in certain places; in other places it is challenged and he pulls it down.

He is dispensed.
He believes in his heart, may even write an anonymous letter to the paper, will salute the flag again elsewhere, but he will not carry his flag through every fight and through every day.