Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His CareerHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 245 pages |
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... - Have been up to my ears in one unending fight to take and keep the Civil Service out of the hands of the politicians ; and I may say without question that during this year the law has been observed in the 18 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... - Have been up to my ears in one unending fight to take and keep the Civil Service out of the hands of the politicians ; and I may say without question that during this year the law has been observed in the 18 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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... fight mosquitoes on the Florida sands or fret in camp at Chickamauga . How right he was in his prognosis and how wrong we were in ours , the result has shown . He took the straight course to fame , to the governorship of New York and to ...
... fight mosquitoes on the Florida sands or fret in camp at Chickamauga . How right he was in his prognosis and how wrong we were in ours , the result has shown . He took the straight course to fame , to the governorship of New York and to ...
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... fight at Santiago was the merest skirmish ; but the spirit in which we handled ourselves there , I hope , was the spirit in which we have to face our duties as citizens if we are to make this Republic what it must be made . On July 27 ...
... fight at Santiago was the merest skirmish ; but the spirit in which we handled ourselves there , I hope , was the spirit in which we have to face our duties as citizens if we are to make this Republic what it must be made . On July 27 ...
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... fight at Santiago was the merest skirmish ; but the spirit in which we handled ourselves there , I hope , was the spirit in which we have to face our duties as citizens if we are to make this Republic what it must be made . On July 27 ...
... fight at Santiago was the merest skirmish ; but the spirit in which we handled ourselves there , I hope , was the spirit in which we have to face our duties as citizens if we are to make this Republic what it must be made . On July 27 ...
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... fight for conservation of our resources , for the quickening of the public con- science which , once enlightened , would demand the proper regulation of corporations , would curb the tendency to private monopoly in public land and ...
... fight for conservation of our resources , for the quickening of the public con- science which , once enlightened , would demand the proper regulation of corporations , would curb the tendency to private monopoly in public land and ...
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Page 20 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 178 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Page 201 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life...
Page 201 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 170 - The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt, he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is, Spend and be spent.
Page 9 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 216 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality of strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 80 - I am President of all the people of the United States, without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all. In the employment and dismissal of men in the Government service, I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him...
Page 177 - Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
Page 56 - The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.