Theodore RooseveltAtlantic Monthly Press, 1913 - 232 pages |
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Page xi
... reform is generally well led by skilled parliamentarians , and they fight with the vin- dictiveness natural to men who see a chance of striking at the institution which has baffled their ferocious greed . These men have a gift at office ...
... reform is generally well led by skilled parliamentarians , and they fight with the vin- dictiveness natural to men who see a chance of striking at the institution which has baffled their ferocious greed . These men have a gift at office ...
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... Reform for all the larger cities in the State . He made good his old promise to the saloon - keeper , that he would advocate a heavier tax on his licence , but his pro- posal was defeated . More important still , he took up the demand ...
... Reform for all the larger cities in the State . He made good his old promise to the saloon - keeper , that he would advocate a heavier tax on his licence , but his pro- posal was defeated . More important still , he took up the demand ...
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... Reform le good : would is pro- e took Union ed on Here Ourts fact rest ta me a S- n 1 without the least sense of personal superiority in virtue ; he was ready to fight any man or every man if real cause arose , but still more ready to ...
... Reform le good : would is pro- e took Union ed on Here Ourts fact rest ta me a S- n 1 without the least sense of personal superiority in virtue ; he was ready to fight any man or every man if real cause arose , but still more ready to ...
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... reforms which were even more needed there than in London , and to the need of which English opinion became about that time keenly alive . The well - meaning jurist who delivered the decision heightened its effect upon Roosevelt by ...
... reforms which were even more needed there than in London , and to the need of which English opinion became about that time keenly alive . The well - meaning jurist who delivered the decision heightened its effect upon Roosevelt by ...
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... reform fraud " found out ; and it was honorable in his courageous " Mugwump " friends to be bitterly grieved . He had not acted without grave searchings of heart . He reflected upon the relative utility of acting " without and within ...
... reform fraud " found out ; and it was honorable in his courageous " Mugwump " friends to be bitterly grieved . He had not acted without grave searchings of heart . He reflected upon the relative utility of acting " without and within ...
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Page 206 - 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 xiv - 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 207 - 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 121 - 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 xi - 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 viii - 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 vii - ... 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 xv - 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 130 - ... 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 xii - 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...