 We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.  The Technical World Magazine - Page 851904Full view - About this book
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 516 pages
...that organizes its utter resources into an incomparable mechanism of slaughter, because these are the "virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life," in the world's hellish arena. To succeed men and nations must be devils, let us therefore become devils... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration,...fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. •VJn this life we get nothing save by effort. •} Freedom from effort in the present merely means... | |
 | Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 388 pages
...wins the splendid ultimate triumph." Another paragraph is equally interesting and elevating : — " We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire...; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." And to this he adds : — "As it is with the individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth... | |
 | Henry Dwight Porter - 1911 - 424 pages
...velvet bloom leading us down to the dales." — Anon. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. — TR xvin A MISSIONARY FURLOUGH ON the llth of February Dr. Ament had written, " My plans are indefinite,... | |
 | 1912 - 520 pages
...man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help his friend , but who has those virile qualities necessary...hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to suceed. S. 29 : The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must carry if... | |
 | 1912 - 504 pages
...who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor , who is prompt to help his friend , but who has those virile qualities necessary...life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to havetried to suceed. S. 29 : The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must... | |
 | Lucia True Ames Mead - 1912 - 310 pages
...which this nation must carry. We do not admire the man of timid peace. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. * Upon the writer of newspaper headlines and editorials there is a greater moral responsibility than... | |
 | Lucia True Ames Mead - 1912 - 314 pages
...which this nation must carry. We do not admire the man of timid peace. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.1 Upon the writer of newspaper headlines and editorials there is a greater moral responsibility... | |
 | Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 pages
...Matt. 20 : 26-27. Sing: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," from New Common-School Song Book. 27 PERSEVERANCE It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER IT WAS the perseverance of the spider that taught... | |
 | Stephen Francis Weston - 1914 - 208 pages
...THEORY OF WAR Ex-President Roosevelt has made this astounding statement, " By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." These words, coming from the lips of a nation's idol, have fallen like a bomb shell in the camp of... | |
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