A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... play at it , I feel the uneasy burden of my task . Humanity , even in its wisest expression , is so marked of a plentiful lack of knowledge , so much the slave of circumscription , so warped of an interest , so crip- pled of a pinching ...
... play at it , I feel the uneasy burden of my task . Humanity , even in its wisest expression , is so marked of a plentiful lack of knowledge , so much the slave of circumscription , so warped of an interest , so crip- pled of a pinching ...
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... play the hypo- crite , than a grizzly bear can disguise a sentiment or play the hypocrite ; he could fight but he couldn't lie , die but not deceive . With these noon - day defects of frankness and no stealth , it behooved young ...
... play the hypo- crite , than a grizzly bear can disguise a sentiment or play the hypocrite ; he could fight but he couldn't lie , die but not deceive . With these noon - day defects of frankness and no stealth , it behooved young ...
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... played in the Revolution , the part you played even during the Revolution , in win- ning the great West for the Republic . I feel that you deserve to be called in a peculiar sense Americans of Americans , and ΙΟ Messages and Speeches ...
... played in the Revolution , the part you played even during the Revolution , in win- ning the great West for the Republic . I feel that you deserve to be called in a peculiar sense Americans of Americans , and ΙΟ Messages and Speeches ...
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... play for all men on their merits as men . He did all this . He is a man of slender means . He did this on his pay as an army officer . As Governor of the island sixty millions of dollars passed through his hands , and he came out having ...
... play for all men on their merits as men . He did all this . He is a man of slender means . He did this on his pay as an army officer . As Governor of the island sixty millions of dollars passed through his hands , and he came out having ...
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... play , as if you meant to be learning what is temporarily your business . A man is of use as a National Guardsman for just exactly the same reasons as he is of use as a citizen , and that is if he sets to work with his whole heart to do ...
... play , as if you meant to be learning what is temporarily your business . A man is of use as a National Guardsman for just exactly the same reasons as he is of use as a citizen , and that is if he sets to work with his whole heart to do ...
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Page 569 - ... with my life and the apprehension of danger natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Page 481 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 571 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 671 - We can admire the heroic valor, the sincerity, the self-devotion shown alike by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray; and...
Page 662 - On the one hand, this country would certainly decline to go to war to prevent a foreign government from collecting a just debt; on the other hand, it is very inadvisable to permit any foreign power to take possession, even temporarily, of the...
Page 662 - If a republic to the south of us commits a tort against a foreign nation such as an outrage against a citizen of that nation, then the Monroe Doctrine does not force us to interfere to prevent punishment of the tort, save to see that the punishment does not assume the form of territorial occupation in any shape.
Page 220 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Page 219 - In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any nonAmerican power at the expense of any American power on American soil.
Page 261 - In the end an admirable law was passed "to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in inter-state commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes.
Page 261 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with drivingwheel brakes, and for other purposes...