Roosevelt, Prophet of UnityScribner, 1924 - 142 pages |
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... struggle in which he took part , except the last . As a politician he had one defect which was incorrigible - a grim insistence , in major matters , of following a line of conduct which he conceived to be right , regardless of per ...
... struggle in which he took part , except the last . As a politician he had one defect which was incorrigible - a grim insistence , in major matters , of following a line of conduct which he conceived to be right , regardless of per ...
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... struggle which appeared to be localized in the Orient ; and how effective Roosevelt's leadership was in preventing at that time the World War which came ten years later . * It is question- able , however , whether his struggle for the ...
... struggle which appeared to be localized in the Orient ; and how effective Roosevelt's leadership was in preventing at that time the World War which came ten years later . * It is question- able , however , whether his struggle for the ...
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... struggling , that he was best beloved . Many men have talked of brotherhood in the abstract , but their words never came to life . Roosevelt talked about it little if at all , but inevitably and without pretense he lived it , and Tom ...
... struggling , that he was best beloved . Many men have talked of brotherhood in the abstract , but their words never came to life . Roosevelt talked about it little if at all , but inevitably and without pretense he lived it , and Tom ...
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... struggle against the menace of social , economic , and industrial cleavage . Throughout his life Roosevelt fought many battles , in many high causes , but at bottom it was one cause , one supreme cause which he was always serving , the ...
... struggle against the menace of social , economic , and industrial cleavage . Throughout his life Roosevelt fought many battles , in many high causes , but at bottom it was one cause , one supreme cause which he was always serving , the ...
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... struggle for the spiritual unity of " the chil- dren of the crucible " on which Roosevelt had been engaged during the whole of his public career . In the only public address which he de- livered in the West during the years of his ...
... struggle for the spiritual unity of " the chil- dren of the crucible " on which Roosevelt had been engaged during the whole of his public career . In the only public address which he de- livered in the West during the years of his ...
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Page 129 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 97 - In the employment and dismissal of men in the Government service I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him...
Page 93 - I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class ; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...
Page 129 - Friends, our task as Americans is to strive for social and industrial justice, achieved through the genuine rule of the people. This is our end, our purpose. The methods for achieving the end are merely expedients, to be finally accepted or rejected according as actual experience shows that they work well or ill. But in our hearts we must have this lofty purpose, and we must strive for it in all earnestness and sincerity, or our work will come to nothing. In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired...
Page 89 - The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their right to life on this continent.
Page 130 - Government either into government by a plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repeat on a larger scale the lamentable failures of the world that is dead. We stand against all tyranny, by the few or by the many. We stand for the rule of the many in the interest of all of us, for the rule of the many in a spirit of courage, of common sense, of high purpose; above all, in a spirit of kindly justice toward every man and every woman.
Page 57 - I believe that when you say this you foully slander your fellow countrymen. I do not for one moment believe that the mass of our fellow citizens, or that any considerable number of our fellow citizens, can be influenced by such narrow bigotry as to refuse to vote for any thoroughly upright and fit man because he happens to have a particular religious creed. Such a consideration should never be treated as a reason for either supporting or opposing a candidate for a political office. Are you aware...
Page 103 - ... undesirable of the traits to which mankind has owed untold degradation and suffering throughout the ages. Arrogance, suspicion, brutal envy of the well-to-do, brutal indifference toward those who are not well-to-do, the hard refusal to consider the rights of others, the foolish refusal to consider the limits of beneficent action, the base appeal to the spirit of selfish greed, whether it take the form of plunder of the fortunate or of oppression of the unfortunate — from these and from all...
Page 117 - French people went through misery toward a shattered goal. May we profit by the experiences of our brother republicans across the water, and go forward steadily, avoiding all wild extremes; and may our ultra-conservatives remember that the rule of the Bourbons brought on the Revolution, and may our would-be revolutionaries remember that no Bourbon was ever such a dangerous enemy of the people and of freedom as the professed friend of both, Robespierre. There is no danger of a revolution in this country;...
Page 56 - To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life.