He is trusted, but he is not trusted enough.

He believes in himself, but he does not believe as much in himself and in his mission as his own highest achievement demands.

He is not sufficiently empowered by the idea that just in so far as he does his best work, and only his best work, he is contributing most to national as well as personal fulfillment.
What the better American individual particularly needs, then, is a completer faith in his own individual purpose and power--a clearer understanding of his own individual opportunities.

He needs to do what he has been doing, only more so, and with the conviction that thereby he is becoming not less but more of an American.

His patriotism, instead of being something apart from his special work, should be absolutely identified therewith, because no matter how much the eminence of his personal achievement may temporarily divide him from his fellow-countrymen, he is, by attaining to such an eminence, helping in the most effectual possible way to build the only fitting habitation for a sincere democracy.