 ... if we are to hold our own in the struggle for naval and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage which will enable us to have our say in deciding...  Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen - Page 418by Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 864 pages
...well-to-do hucksters, who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage,... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...that there were yet other and even loftier duties — duties to the nation and duties to the race. We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...loftier duties — duties to the nation and duties to the race. We cannot sit huddled within our'own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...wellto-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end ; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian Canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end ; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 710 pages
...well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy wonld defeat even its own end; for, as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 244 pages
...well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...well-to-do hucksters, who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever •wider and...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the Isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage... | |
 | 1905 - 794 pages
...well-to-do hucksters, who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider...and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the lsthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage,... | |
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