Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904G.P. Putman's Sons, 1904 - 485 pages |
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... entire sin- cerity . What he says is pre - eminently genuine , for all his utterances not only come straight from the heart , but are set forth with an energy and force of conviction which are as apparent as they are characteristic . He ...
... entire sin- cerity . What he says is pre - eminently genuine , for all his utterances not only come straight from the heart , but are set forth with an energy and force of conviction which are as apparent as they are characteristic . He ...
Page 28
... entire country is vitally interested in the navy , because an efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace , but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our ...
... entire country is vitally interested in the navy , because an efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace , but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our ...
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... entire country . Men go there from every State , from every walk of life , professing every creed — the chance of entry being open to all who perfect themselves in the necessary studies and who possess the necessary moral and physical ...
... entire country . Men go there from every State , from every walk of life , professing every creed — the chance of entry being open to all who perfect themselves in the necessary studies and who possess the necessary moral and physical ...
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... entire self - respect . The aim to set before ourselves in trying to aid one another is to give that aid under conditions which will harm no man's self - respect and which will teach the less fortunate how to help themselves as their ...
... entire self - respect . The aim to set before ourselves in trying to aid one another is to give that aid under conditions which will harm no man's self - respect and which will teach the less fortunate how to help themselves as their ...
Page 40
... entire country , it would mean merely that there would come a reaction in which they and their remedies would be hopelessly discredited . Now , it does not do anybody any good , and it will do most of us a great deal of harm , to 40 ...
... entire country , it would mean merely that there would come a reaction in which they and their remedies would be hopelessly discredited . Now , it does not do anybody any good , and it will do most of us a great deal of harm , to 40 ...
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Page 153 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes.
Page 225 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 427 - An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
Page 356 - Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others.
Page 322 - States. .. .The Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the 0ld World.
Page 425 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 292 - ... has meant a startling increase, not merely in the aggregate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual, and especially of very large corporate, fortunes. The creation of these great corporate fortunes has not been due to the tariff nor to any other governmental action, but to natural causes in the business world, operating in other countries as they operate in our own.
Page 118 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Page 118 - In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any nonAmerican power at the expense of any American power on American soil.
Page 328 - The American people must either build and maintain an adequate navy or else make up their minds definitely to accept a secondary position in international affairs, not merely in political but in commercial matters. It has been well said that there is no surer way of courting national disaster than to be "opulent, aggressive, and unarmed.