Roosevelt, the Happy WarriorLittle, Brown,, 1921 - 376 pages |
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... Civil Service Commissioners . He had learned by his experience in the Assembly at Albany that a reformer cannot reform - alone . He must work with and through other people . Accordingly , young in VICTORS AND SPOILS 103.
... Civil Service Commissioners . He had learned by his experience in the Assembly at Albany that a reformer cannot reform - alone . He must work with and through other people . Accordingly , young in VICTORS AND SPOILS 103.
Page 104
... Civil Service Reform . If President Harrison had desired to " shelve " him , as Thomas Platt did later , he could have hit upon no field for him which would appear to bring him more enemies and more shut him off from political ...
... Civil Service Reform . If President Harrison had desired to " shelve " him , as Thomas Platt did later , he could have hit upon no field for him which would appear to bring him more enemies and more shut him off from political ...
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... Civil Service days , and with much less background of prestige than in later reforms . As we survey his Titanic efforts of that period , we feel a momentary thrill of pity . But that thrill VICTORS AND SPOILS 107.
... Civil Service days , and with much less background of prestige than in later reforms . As we survey his Titanic efforts of that period , we feel a momentary thrill of pity . But that thrill VICTORS AND SPOILS 107.
Page 108
... Civil Service crusade , he forced committees , bearded officials in their dens , and dominated mass meetings , and ... Civil Service advocates . This made them distrusted by vigorous human men like my friend Joe Murray . He always felt ...
... Civil Service crusade , he forced committees , bearded officials in their dens , and dominated mass meetings , and ... Civil Service advocates . This made them distrusted by vigorous human men like my friend Joe Murray . He always felt ...
Page 109
... Civil Service board was the center of the plot , had a personal interview with him , and agreed to keep him in office on the board if he would tell the whole story . This looks like compounding a felony . But Roosevelt never was ...
... Civil Service board was the center of the plot , had a personal interview with him , and agreed to keep him in office on the board if he would tell the whole story . This looks like compounding a felony . But Roosevelt never was ...
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Page 183 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 148 - I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these' wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 299 - The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power." In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil.
Page 317 - August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 154 - Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully ; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
Page 231 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page 299 - States. .. .The Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the 0ld World.
Page 304 - It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under" corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.
Page 135 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR WHO is the happy warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be...