Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm.

The line argues for self-reliance: people become “stronger” when they recognize that the most dependable help is their own capacity to act. By locating the “helping hand” at the end of one’s “own right arm,” Phillips turns an abstract moral into a concrete bodily image—agency is not elsewhere (in patrons, institutions, or luck) but literally attached to the self. The phrasing also implies a psychological shift: strength is “made” through realization, suggesting that empowerment begins as a change in attitude that then enables practical effort. In a broader ethical sense, the quote champions responsibility and initiative while warning against passivity or overdependence on external rescue.