The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury, 1901 - 332 pages |
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... that the blame will lie upon the men whose names appear upon the roll - calls of Congress on the wrong side of these great questions . On them will lie the burden of any loss of our soldiers and 14 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... that the blame will lie upon the men whose names appear upon the roll - calls of Congress on the wrong side of these great questions . On them will lie the burden of any loss of our soldiers and 14 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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... wrong - doing of any kind , national or individual , gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it ...
... wrong - doing of any kind , national or individual , gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it ...
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. 1 entirely wrong that beside it no other toler- ated evil is wrong . Witness Armenia and witness Crete . War has been avoided ; but what of the national consciences that beheld such iniquity and ...
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. 1 entirely wrong that beside it no other toler- ated evil is wrong . Witness Armenia and witness Crete . War has been avoided ; but what of the national consciences that beheld such iniquity and ...
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... wrong , and with a fund of stern virtue deep in their souls which enabled them to do deeds from which men of over - soft natures would have shrunk appalled . Wars between civilized communities are very dreadful , and as nations grow ...
... wrong , and with a fund of stern virtue deep in their souls which enabled them to do deeds from which men of over - soft natures would have shrunk appalled . Wars between civilized communities are very dreadful , and as nations grow ...
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... as to when com- promise is right and when wrong ; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize , and when it is merely a proof of weakness . Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for 44 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
... as to when com- promise is right and when wrong ; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize , and when it is merely a proof of weakness . Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for 44 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
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Page 4 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Page 288 - There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 21 - ... it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.
Page 56 - 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. As soon as a politician gets to the point of thinking that in order to be "practical" he has got to be base, he has become a noxious member of the body politic.
Page 20 - I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.