The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. AdministrationP. F. Collier, 1897 - 19 pages V. 1, 2, 3, 4 -- The winning of the West. v. 5, 6 -- The naval war of 1812. v. 7 -- Hunting the grisly and other sketches. v. 8 -- The wilderness hunter. v. 9 -- Hunting trips of a ranchman; Hunting trips on the Prairies and in the mountains. v. 10 -- American ideals; Administration-civil service. v. 12 -- The strenuous life. v. 13, 14, 15, 16 -- Presidential addresses and state papers. |
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... never been equaled by any Police Commissioner before or since . During the three years from 1894 to 1897 he wrote the greater part of the essays on political sub- jects which are printed in the volumes of American Ideals . In these will ...
... never been equaled by any Police Commissioner before or since . During the three years from 1894 to 1897 he wrote the greater part of the essays on political sub- jects which are printed in the volumes of American Ideals . In these will ...
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... never been equaled by any Police Commissioner before or since . During the three years from 1894 to 1897 he wrote the greater part of the essays on political sub- jects which are printed in the volumes of American Ideals . In these will ...
... never been equaled by any Police Commissioner before or since . During the three years from 1894 to 1897 he wrote the greater part of the essays on political sub- jects which are printed in the volumes of American Ideals . In these will ...
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... never have won our independence of the British crown , and we should almost certainly have failed to become a great nation , remaining instead a cluster of jangling lit- * The Forum , February , 1895 . tle communities , drifting toward ...
... never have won our independence of the British crown , and we should almost certainly have failed to become a great nation , remaining instead a cluster of jangling lit- * The Forum , February , 1895 . tle communities , drifting toward ...
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... never be bestowed by the enjoyment of mere material prosperity . It is not only the country which these men helped to make and helped to save that is ours by inheri- tance ; we inherit also all that is best and highest in their ...
... never be bestowed by the enjoyment of mere material prosperity . It is not only the country which these men helped to make and helped to save that is ours by inheri- tance ; we inherit also all that is best and highest in their ...
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... never be successful over the dangers that confront us ; we shall never achieve true greatness , nor reach the lofty ideal which the founders and preservers of our mighty Federal Republic have set before us , un- less we are Americans in ...
... never be successful over the dangers that confront us ; we shall never achieve true greatness , nor reach the lofty ideal which the founders and preservers of our mighty Federal Republic have set before us , un- less we are Americans in ...
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Page 201 - No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. The courage of the soldier, the courage of the statesman who has to meet storms which can be quelled only by soldierly qualities — this stands higher than any quality called out merely in time of peace.
Page 215 - All of us lift our heads higher because those of our countrymen whose trade it is to meet danger have met it well and bravely. All of us are poorer for every base or ignoble deed done by an American, for every instance of selfishness or weakness or folly on the part of the people as a whole. We are all worse off when any of us fails at any point in his duty toward the State in time of peace, or his duty toward the State in time of war. If ever we had to meet defeat at the hands of a foreign foe,...
Page 211 - Asia, should determine to assert its position in those lands wherein we feel that our influence should be supreme, there is but one way in which we can effectively interfere. Diplomacy is utterly useless where there is no force behind it ; the diplomat is the servant, not the master, of the soldier.
Page 187 - The United States has not the slightest wish to establish a universal protectorate over other American States, or to become responsible for their misdeeds. If one of them becomes involved in an ordinary quarrel with a European power, such quarrel must be settled between them by any one of the usual methods. But no European State is to be allowed to aggrandize itself on American soil at the expense of any American State.
Page 35 - But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace.
Page 36 - We Americans can only do our allotted task well if we face it steadily and bravely, seeing but not fearing the dangers. Above all we must stand shoulder to shoulder, not asking as to the ancestry or creed of our comrades, but only demanding that they be in very truth Americans, and that we all work together, heart, hand, and head, for the honor and the greatness of our Common country.
Page 189 - The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. One is as worthless a creature as the other.
Page 259 - A perfectly stupid race can never rise to a very high plane; the negro, for instance, has been kept down as much by lack of intellectual development as anything else.
Page 27 - Americanism" can be used to express the antithesis of what is unwholesome and undesirable. In the first place we wish to be broadly American and national, as opposed to being local or sectional. We do not wish, in politics, in literature, or in art, to develop that unwholesome parochial spirit, that over-exaltation of the little community at the expense of the great nation, which produces what has been described as the patriotism of the village, the patriotism of the belfry.
Page 19 - There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses — whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter.