Theodore RooseveltAtlantic Monthly Press, 1913 - 232 pages |
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... least . But he desired passionately the growth of understanding and of ready human sympathy between your people and the peoples of that strange " Commonwealth of Nations , " the British Empire , seeing that you and we are trustees of a ...
... least . But he desired passionately the growth of understanding and of ready human sympathy between your people and the peoples of that strange " Commonwealth of Nations , " the British Empire , seeing that you and we are trustees of a ...
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... least believe that Darwin would have found a ready use for him . So the question what he should do with himself became a very doubtful one , till at last a friend who asked him about it received the startling answer : " I am going to ...
... least believe that Darwin would have found a ready use for him . So the question what he should do with himself became a very doubtful one , till at last a friend who asked him about it received the startling answer : " I am going to ...
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... least important aspects of the matter concerned , which is incident to that august profession .. For good and for ill he was unlikely to develop a great legal intellect , though , as he later reflected , an American lawyer might do a ...
... least important aspects of the matter concerned , which is incident to that august profession .. For good and for ill he was unlikely to develop a great legal intellect , though , as he later reflected , an American lawyer might do a ...
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... least well furnished with spittoons ; unobtrusively took stock of his queer new associates , and was received on the whole with affability , and even friendliness , though he outraged the principles of most of them by voting , with a ...
... least well furnished with spittoons ; unobtrusively took stock of his queer new associates , and was received on the whole with affability , and even friendliness , though he outraged the principles of most of them by voting , with a ...
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... least exposing , jobs . His first speech was a blunt statement of the case , which explained , and thus destroyed , some " deal " of a customary and plausible kind , but with undeserved profits for somebody at the back of it , between ...
... least exposing , jobs . His first speech was a blunt statement of the case , which explained , and thus destroyed , some " deal " of a customary and plausible kind , but with undeserved profits for somebody at the back of it , between ...
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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...