 | Robert Cornelius V. Meyers - 1902 - 638 pages
...there was not the slightest intention on their part to violate the principles of the Monroe Doctrine." "If the American nation will speak softly and yet...efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." "To lay up a battleship, and only send it afloat at the outset of a war, with a raw crew and untried... | |
 | Cosimo Noto - 1903 - 396 pages
...not only failed to discipline the superheated Dewey, but afterward, in advising our citizens, said : 'There is a homely old adage which runs, "speak softly...highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe 1 Roosevelt's speech in Chicago, April 2, 1903. ! Vossische Zeitung, 28th March. J Prof. Adolph Wagner... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...agree at Portsmouth. — A triumph of peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "THERE is a homely old adage which runs, 'Speak softly...efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. That phrase, "a big stick," has gone round the world. Everywhere President... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...agree at Portsmouth. — A triumph of peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "THERE is a homely old adage which runs, 'Speak softly...efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." — THEODORE ROOSEVELT. That phrase, "a big stick," has gone round the world. Everywhere President... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1910 - 250 pages
...boasting, even without insult, and when called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly...thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. — Addresses and Messages. Advance We need have scant patience with that standards silly cynicism... | |
 | Hazlitt Alva Cuppy - 1911 - 546 pages
...softly and carrying a big stick in upholding the Monroe Doctrine. " If the American nation," he said, " will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch...efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." As regards the trusts, in his speech at Milwaukee he said emphatically, " You can, of course, put an... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1916 - 430 pages
...foreign power whose interest it may ever happen to be to violate it" "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK" "There is a homely old adage which runs : 'Speak softly...efficient Navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." u 3 9015 03199 4737 ... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1916 - 434 pages
...power whose interest it may ever happen to be to violate it." "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK" "There is a homely old adage which runs : 'Speak softly...efficient Navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." 414 . Stanford Univwslty Llbrariw 3 bios DOS m? STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 0 DS STANFOD salcirc@sulmail.sfanford.edu... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1920 - 532 pages
...great audience in Chicago on April 2, 1903, the President said: "I believe in the Monroe Doctrine with all my heart and soul; I am convinced that the immense...thoroughly efficient navy the Monroe Doctrine will go far." The first mention of the "big stick" adage that I find in his correspondence is in a letter that he... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland - 1920 - 380 pages
...runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American Nation will speak softly yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training...efficient Navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." Immediately this expression was seized upon and soon came to mean infinitely more than the sense in... | |
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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. 
