The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... wishes to play a great part in the world there must be no dallying with the life of lazy ease . In the abounding energy and intensity of existence in our mighty democratic republic there is small space in- deed for the idler , for the ...
... wishes to play a great part in the world there must be no dallying with the life of lazy ease . In the abounding energy and intensity of existence in our mighty democratic republic there is small space in- deed for the idler , for the ...
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... wish him to be an agent in eradicating the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to apply to every form of decency , public as well as private . The worst development that we could see in civic life in ...
... wish him to be an agent in eradicating the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to apply to every form of decency , public as well as private . The worst development that we could see in civic life in ...
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... wish to see the decent man in any relation of life , including politics , when hustled by the man who is not decent , able so to hold his own that the other gentleman shall feel no desire to hustle him again . My plea is for the virtue ...
... wish to see the decent man in any relation of life , including politics , when hustled by the man who is not decent , able so to hold his own that the other gentleman shall feel no desire to hustle him again . My plea is for the virtue ...
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... in Cairo , Egypt , March 28 , 1910. From African and European Addresses . Copy- right , 1910. G. P. Putnam's Sons , New York and London , pub- lishers . II . THE STRENUOUS LIFE I I WISH to preach THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 55.
... in Cairo , Egypt , March 28 , 1910. From African and European Addresses . Copy- right , 1910. G. P. Putnam's Sons , New York and London , pub- lishers . II . THE STRENUOUS LIFE I I WISH to preach THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 55.
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... WISH to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and ef- fort , of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires mere easy ...
... WISH to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and ef- fort , of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires mere easy ...
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