Theodore Roosevelt, the CitizenMacmillan, 1904 - 471 pages |
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Page 35
... enemies . " One factor in this mental balance , his un- hesitating moral courage which shirked no dis- agreeable task and was halted by no false pride of opinion , had long been apparent . He was known as a good hand for a disagreeable ...
... enemies . " One factor in this mental balance , his un- hesitating moral courage which shirked no dis- agreeable task and was halted by no false pride of opinion , had long been apparent . He was known as a good hand for a disagreeable ...
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... enemy's camp . The facts which Roosevelt brought out from the official files with absolute impartiality grew into his first book , " The Naval War of 1812 , " which took rank at once as as an authority . The British paid the young ...
... enemy's camp . The facts which Roosevelt brought out from the official files with absolute impartiality grew into his first book , " The Naval War of 1812 , " which took rank at once as as an authority . The British paid the young ...
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... State has ever had . But , more than that , he saw that this was one of the positions to be rushed if the enemy were to be beaten out . Another was the power of confirmation the Aldermen had over [ 62 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... State has ever had . But , more than that , he saw that this was one of the positions to be rushed if the enemy were to be beaten out . Another was the power of confirmation the Aldermen had over [ 62 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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... enemies in the club . Yet it was proposed deliberately to blackball him . There was no pretense about it ; it was a perfectly bald issue of Gentile against Jew in a club where it was easy to keep him out , at least so they thought ...
... enemies in the club . Yet it was proposed deliberately to blackball him . There was no pretense about it ; it was a perfectly bald issue of Gentile against Jew in a club where it was easy to keep him out , at least so they thought ...
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... enemies . Things took a sudden turn with Roosevelt in the Board . He was there to do a work he thor- oughly believed in , that was one thing . In the Legislature of New York he had forced through a civil service law that was substan ...
... enemies . Things took a sudden turn with Roosevelt in the Board . He was there to do a work he thor- oughly believed in , that was one thing . In the Legislature of New York he had forced through a civil service law that was substan ...
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Page 381 - No person shall be refused employment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization, and there should be no discriminating against or interference with any employee who is not a member of a labor organization by members of such organization.
Page 382 - I am President of all the people of the United States without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all. 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 423 - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. He is bound to do all the good possible. Yet he must consider the question of expediency, in order that he may do all the good possible, for otherwise he will do none.
Page 414 - In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.
Page 424 - Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing...
Page 420 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 425 - He knows, whether he be business man, professional man, farmer, mechanic, employer, or wage-worker, that the welfare of each of these men is bound up with the welfare of all the others; that each is neighbor to the other, is actuated by the same hopes and fears, has fundamentally the same ideals, and that all alike have much the same virtues and the same faults. Our average fellow-citizen is a sane and healthy man, who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind.
Page 426 - We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country.
Page 87 - ... while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the magazine, my rifle holding only four, all of which I had fired. Then he tried to pull up, but as he did so his muscles seemed suddenly to give way, his head drooped, and he rolled over and over like a shot rabbit. Each of my first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound.
Page 173 - Like so many of the gallant fighters with whom it was later my good fortune to serve, he combined, in a very high degree, the qualities of entire manliness with entire uprightness and cleanliness of character. It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who also possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.