The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore RooseveltC. Scribner's sons, 1904 - 189 pages |
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... turn out to be a good American man . Now , the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy . He must not be a coward or a weakling , a bully , a shirk , or a prig . He must work hard and play hard ...
... turn out to be a good American man . Now , the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy . He must not be a coward or a weakling , a bully , a shirk , or a prig . He must work hard and play hard ...
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... turning into anything formidable . So at one time the Per- sian kings had to forbid polo , because soldiers neglected their proper duties for the fascinations of the game . We cannot expect the best work from soldiers who have carried ...
... turning into anything formidable . So at one time the Per- sian kings had to forbid polo , because soldiers neglected their proper duties for the fascinations of the game . We cannot expect the best work from soldiers who have carried ...
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... turning the meat , or watching the johnny - cake , while she sat nursing the baby in the corner and telling the little ones to hold still and let their sister Lizzie dress them . Then came blowing the conch - shell for father in the ...
... turning the meat , or watching the johnny - cake , while she sat nursing the baby in the corner and telling the little ones to hold still and let their sister Lizzie dress them . Then came blowing the conch - shell for father in the ...
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... turn his discoveries to such good ac- count . Boone's claim to distinction rests not so much on his wide wanderings in unknown lands , for in this respect he did little more than was done by a hundred other backwoods hunters of his ...
... turn his discoveries to such good ac- count . Boone's claim to distinction rests not so much on his wide wanderings in unknown lands , for in this respect he did little more than was done by a hundred other backwoods hunters of his ...
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... turn away from them , when they have not been earned , who in the long run deserve best of their country . In the sweat of our brows do we eat bread , and though the sweat is bitter at times , yet it is far more bitter to eat the bread ...
... turn away from them , when they have not been earned , who in the long run deserve best of their country . In the sweat of our brows do we eat bread , and though the sweat is bitter at times , yet it is far more bitter to eat the bread ...
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Page 26 - 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 91 - ... lines in the rear. Here, at the very outset of our active service, we suffered the loss of two as gallant men as ever wore uniform. Sergeant Hamilton Fish at the extreme front, while holding the point up to its work and firing back where the Spanish advance guards lay, was shot and instantly killed; three of the men with him were likewise hit. Captain Capron, leading the advance guard in person, and displaying equal courage and coolness in the way that he handled them, was also struck, and died...
Page 24 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 146 - ... 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 31 - I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.
Page 19 - There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses — whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter.
Page 30 - Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider interests, and are brought into closer and closer contact, if we are to hold our own in the struggle for naval and commercial supremacy, we must build up our power without our own borders. We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp...
Page 27 - China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities.
Page 114 - The infantry got nearer and nearer the crest of the hill. At last we could see the Spaniards running from the rifle-pits as the Americans came on in their final rush. Then I stopped my men for fear they should injure their comrades, and called to them to charge the next line of trenches, on the hills in our front, from which we had been undergoing a good deal of punishment. Thinking that the men would all come, I jumped over the wire fence in front of us and started at the double ; but, as a matter...
Page 62 - IT WAS on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay and William Cool.