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" 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 83
1904
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Imperialism and Liberty

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...
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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

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...
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American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt

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...
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William Scott Ament, Missionary of the American Board to China

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,...
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Englische studien: Organ für englische philologie unter ..., Volume 45

1912 - 518 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...
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Englische Studien, Volume 45

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...
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Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the ...

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...
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Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the ...

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...
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Morning Exercises for All the Year: A Day Book for Teachers

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...
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Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association

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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