Roosevelt, the Happy WarriorLittle, Brown,, 1921 - 376 pages |
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... peace- maker for that ardent little group . He usually ate heartily , I am told . " Two helps " being nearly always called for by him . When he received his portion , he was accustomed to retain his spectacles and prepare it carefully ...
... peace- maker for that ardent little group . He usually ate heartily , I am told . " Two helps " being nearly always called for by him . When he received his portion , he was accustomed to retain his spectacles and prepare it carefully ...
Page 50
... peace . came One Sunday , after several months had passed , one of the little boys - " Billy " , we will say into the class , and was plainly seen to have a sus- piciously " black eye . " His companions did not try very hard to ignore ...
... peace . came One Sunday , after several months had passed , one of the little boys - " Billy " , we will say into the class , and was plainly seen to have a sus- piciously " black eye . " His companions did not try very hard to ignore ...
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... peace with all other nations as earnestly as did any member of the American Peace Society ; but he blended that desire with more intelligence , with more insight into the cold facts about men and nations than was evinced by most of ...
... peace with all other nations as earnestly as did any member of the American Peace Society ; but he blended that desire with more intelligence , with more insight into the cold facts about men and nations than was evinced by most of ...
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... peace societies ! And how admirably my classmate summed them up in a sentence or two ! " There are high - minded , earnest people who in a genuine fashion strive for peace ; and then there are those foolish fanatics , always to be found ...
... peace societies ! And how admirably my classmate summed them up in a sentence or two ! " There are high - minded , earnest people who in a genuine fashion strive for peace ; and then there are those foolish fanatics , always to be found ...
Page 141
... Peace Society or had been taking a vacation in Kamtchatka , he would have heard that explosion of the Maine and would have flung his hat into the ring . As he was situated , enlistment was easy and inevitable . Friends advised against ...
... Peace Society or had been taking a vacation in Kamtchatka , he would have heard that explosion of the Maine and would have flung his hat into the ring . As he was situated , enlistment was easy and inevitable . Friends advised against ...
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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...