There is a homely old adage which runs : "Speak softly and carry a big stick ; you will go far." If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient Navy, the Monroe Doctrine will... THE AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Page 78by HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923Full view - About this book
| Robert Cornelius V. Meyers - 1902 - 638 pages
...principles of the Monroe Doctrine." "If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." "To lay up a battleship, and only send it afloat at the outset of a war, with a raw crew and untried... | |
| Cosimo Noto - 1903 - 396 pages
...Zeitung, 28th March. J Prof. Adolph Wagner of Berlin. Doctrine will go far. I ask you to think this over. If you do, you will come to the conclusion that it...weakest and most irresolute can fail to desire to put into force. If we prepare sufficiently, no war will ever come. We wish a powerful and efficient navy,... | |
| United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 512 pages
...big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient...will come to the conclusion that it is mere plain common-sense, so obviously sound that only the blind can fail to see its truth and only the weakest... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 788 pages
...big stick; you will go far." If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient...will come to the conclusion that it is mere plain common-sense, so obviously sound that only the blind can fail to see its truth and only the weakest... | |
| James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. That phrase, "a big stick," has gone round the world. Everywhere President... | |
| James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. That phrase, "a big stick," has gone round the world. Everywhere President... | |
| Fabian Franklin - 1908 - 364 pages
...big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient...doctrine will go far. I ask you to think over this. To be sure, it is well that President Roosevelt feels his responsibility. But he must pardon others... | |
| Addison Charles Thomas - 1910 - 322 pages
...big stick ; you will go far." If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient...most irresolute can fail to desire to put it into force. Well, in the last two years I am happy to say we have taken long strides in advance as regards... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1910 - 250 pages
...big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. — Addresses and Messages. Advance We need have scant patience with that standards silly cynicism... | |
| Hazlitt Alva Cuppy - 1911 - 546 pages
...Monroe Doctrine. " If the American nation," he said, " will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." As regards the trusts, in his speech at Milwaukee he said emphatically, " You can, of course, put an... | |
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