Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904G.P. Putman's Sons, 1904 - 485 pages |
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... kind has moved slowly upward through the ages , some- times a little faster , sometimes a little slower , but rarely , indeed , by leaps and bounds . At times a great crisis comes in which a great people , perchance led by a great man ...
... kind has moved slowly upward through the ages , some- times a little faster , sometimes a little slower , but rarely , indeed , by leaps and bounds . At times a great crisis comes in which a great people , perchance led by a great man ...
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... kind of help that really avails is the help which teaches a man to help himself . Such help every man who has been ... kind of heart , but also the right kind of head . Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality , but it is doubtful whether ...
... kind of help that really avails is the help which teaches a man to help himself . Such help every man who has been ... kind of heart , but also the right kind of head . Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality , but it is doubtful whether ...
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... kind , but with the firmest determination to make big man and little man alike obey the law . What we need first is power . Having gotten the power , remember the work won't be ended - it will be only fairly begun . And let me say again ...
... kind , but with the firmest determination to make big man and little man alike obey the law . What we need first is power . Having gotten the power , remember the work won't be ended - it will be only fairly begun . And let me say again ...
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... kind of profession which is yours . You face death and danger in time of peace , as in time of war the men wearing Uncle Sam's uniform must face them . The law Your work is hard . Do you suppose I mention that be- cause I pity you ? No ...
... kind of profession which is yours . You face death and danger in time of peace , as in time of war the men wearing Uncle Sam's uniform must face them . The law Your work is hard . Do you suppose I mention that be- cause I pity you ? No ...
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... kind of corporation that is always spoken of as a trust . Surely , in rearranging the schedules affecting such a corporation it would be necessary to consider the interests of its smaller competitors which control the remaining part ...
... kind of corporation that is always spoken of as a trust . Surely , in rearranging the schedules affecting such a corporation it would be necessary to consider the interests of its smaller competitors which control the remaining part ...
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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.