...everything. Occupying the most important position in the political gift of his country today, he says, " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife." It is well known to you the great trust which the lamented Cardinal Manning placed in the four national...

...on April 11, 1899, when he delivered his famous address, from which we quote the following: "... I preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. ... I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his sons, shall...

...President himself, that it is indispensable as an autographic biography. THE STRENUOUS LIFE. "Gentlemen: In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West,...the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of...

...tremendously," she went on warmly. " ' I wish to preach,' he said, with snapping teeth and blazing eyes, ' not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the Strenuous Life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife — to preach that highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires...

...BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 1899 N THE STRENUOUS LIFE CHAPTER I. THE STRENUOUS LIFE. IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West,...of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life,(the life of toil and «- t -< 1 - \ effort, of labor and strife; ^,0 preach that highest form...

...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the ilife of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes,...

...(1899); " Oliver Cromwell " (1900). ON NATIONAL QUESTIONS SPEECH DELIVERED AT CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 1899 IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West,...preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doc( trine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that...

...(1899); " Oliver Cromwell " (1900). ON NATIONAL QUESTIONS SPEECH DELIVERED AT CHICAGO, APRIL to, 1899 IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West,...which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminertly and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to...

...swords cut them down like blades of grass. WHERE ROOSEVELT USED THE PHRASE "THE STRENUOUS LIFE." IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West,...doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the etrenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of...

...vigour and ability. The following extracts from speeches aptly indicate his attitude as a public man : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires...