The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... thing to the general public ) a thrilling issue . He preached civic righteous- ness with the same courage and energy alike to laborers and Cabinet officers , and set a fresh wind blowing through the smoky atmosphere of American ...
... thing to the general public ) a thrilling issue . He preached civic righteous- ness with the same courage and energy alike to laborers and Cabinet officers , and set a fresh wind blowing through the smoky atmosphere of American ...
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... things European ; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light axes . Their grim , harsh , narrow lives were yet ...
... things European ; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light axes . Their grim , harsh , narrow lives were yet ...
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... thing for this country if ever the day came when we considered the great deeds of our forefathers as an excuse for our resting slothfully satisfied with what has been already done . On the contrary , they should be an inspiration and ...
... thing for this country if ever the day came when we considered the great deeds of our forefathers as an excuse for our resting slothfully satisfied with what has been already done . On the contrary , they should be an inspiration and ...
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... things , and for the sake of the real greatness of the nation we should in the fullest and most cordial way recognize the fact that some of the most needed work must , from its very nature , be unre- munerative in a material sense ...
... things , and for the sake of the real greatness of the nation we should in the fullest and most cordial way recognize the fact that some of the most needed work must , from its very nature , be unre- munerative in a material sense ...
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... things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor . All this is true in private life , and it is no less true in public life . If Washington and Lincoln had not had in them the whipcord fiber of moral and ...
... things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor . All this is true in private life , and it is no less true in public life . If Washington and Lincoln had not had in them the whipcord fiber of moral and ...
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