Theodore RooseveltAtlantic Monthly Press, 1913 - 232 pages |
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Page xiv
... accept it with rapture ; it gave me an illuminat- ing glimpse into one corner of the mighty brains of these captains of industry . ' December 31. Roosevelt settles the Venezuela affair . " I told John Hay that I would now see the German ...
... accept it with rapture ; it gave me an illuminat- ing glimpse into one corner of the mighty brains of these captains of industry . ' December 31. Roosevelt settles the Venezuela affair . " I told John Hay that I would now see the German ...
Page xvii
... accept as a matter of course . ' November 5. Defeated by Woodrow Wilson . - 1913 Publishes Theodore Roosevelt an Auto- biography . Publishes History as Literature and Other Essays . 1914-1915 Winter . In the Brazilian wilderness ...
... accept as a matter of course . ' November 5. Defeated by Woodrow Wilson . - 1913 Publishes Theodore Roosevelt an Auto- biography . Publishes History as Literature and Other Essays . 1914-1915 Winter . In the Brazilian wilderness ...
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... were not to support Blaine now he should never have accepted the position in which he had been able to offer him a very serious opposition . At a more memorable crisis of his life , in the Republican Convention BEGINNING A CAREER 29.
... were not to support Blaine now he should never have accepted the position in which he had been able to offer him a very serious opposition . At a more memorable crisis of his life , in the Republican Convention BEGINNING A CAREER 29.
Page 42
... accepted it ( as equally evil things have been accepted elsewhere ) almost as one of the natural beauties of America . Moreover , the genial but slack - minded belief that one's self or almost any one is fit for almost any task is ...
... accepted it ( as equally evil things have been accepted elsewhere ) almost as one of the natural beauties of America . Moreover , the genial but slack - minded belief that one's self or almost any one is fit for almost any task is ...
Page 116
... accept arbitration in a boundary dispute with Venezuela . Cleveland had some motive which in such a man must have been high - minded — for what seemed a fantastic outrage , and Roosevelt happened to know what the motive was ; but it has ...
... accept arbitration in a boundary dispute with Venezuela . Cleveland had some motive which in such a man must have been high - minded — for what seemed a fantastic outrage , and Roosevelt happened to know what the motive was ; but it has ...
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Page 208 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page xvi - But there are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is delight in the hardy life of the open, in long rides, rifle in hand, in the thrill of the fight with dangerous game.
Page 209 - Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
Page 123 - That there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and, by God's grace, do the very best we could by them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.
Page xiii - The. course I followed, of regarding the executive as subject only to the people, and, under the Constitution, bound to serve the people affirmatively in cases where the Constitution does not explicitly forbid him to render the service, was substantially the course followed by both Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
Page x - It was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West, the West of Owen Wister's stories and Frederic Remington's drawings, the West of the Indian and the buffalo-hunter, the soldier and the cow-puncher. That land of the West has gone now, "gone, gone with lost Atlantis," gone to the isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories.
Page ix - ... to join with others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few.
Page xvii - this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Page 132 - ... which will render it necessary for Congress to give me the authority to run the line as we claim it, by our own people, without any further regard to the attitude of England and Canada. If I paid attention to mere abstract rights, that is the position I ought to take anyhow.
Page xiv - Panama declared itself independent and wanted to complete the Panama Canal and opened negotiations with us. I had two courses open. I might have taken the matter under advisement and put it before the Senate, in which case we should have had a number of most able speeches on the subject. We would have had a number of very profound arguments, and they would have been going on now, and the Panama Canal would be in the dim future yet. We would have had half a century of discussion, and perhaps the Panama...