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" 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. "
The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 27
by Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 189 pages
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Imperialism and Liberty

Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 516 pages
...succeed men and nations must be devils, let us therefore become devils and so fulfill the law of God. "In this world the nation that has trained itself...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." Acting on this sublime principle of pigpens we must make America a fighting-hell like Europe. That...
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Imperialism and Liberty

Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 514 pages
...fulfill the law of God. "In this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unv/arlike and isolated ease is bound in the end to go down before...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." Acting on this sublime principle of pigpens we must make America a fighting-hell like Europe. That...
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Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations

Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...beyond them ; sunk in a scrambling commercialism ; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, toil and risk ; busying ourselves only with the wants...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities ^Jlf we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world....
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 25

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...wants of our bodies for the day, until suddenly we find beyond a shadow of question what China las already found, that in this world the nation that...great people, we must strive in good faith to play « great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves...
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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Henry Louis Mencken - 1908 - 350 pages
...dionysian — there is no meek acceptance of the Christian doctrine that self-effacement is noble. " The nation that has trained itself to a career of...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." There is no acceptance of the doctrine that all men are equal " before the Lord." On the contrary,...
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The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to ...

Norman Angell - 1910 - 464 pages
...the nation that is trained to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound to go down in the end before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." This view is even emphasized in the speech which Mr. Roosevelt recently delivered at the University...
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The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National ...

Sir Norman Angell - 1913 - 996 pages
...down in the * Speech at Stationer's Hall, London, June 6, 1910. The Psychological Case for War 165 end before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities.* Professor William James covers the whole ground of these claims in the following passage : The war...
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America and the New World-state: A Plea for American Leadership in ...

Norman Angell - 1915 - 344 pages
...nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound to go down in the end before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. Since when has this become the "American doctrine"? Certain it is that all our traditions are founded...
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Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory: A Study of Force as a Factor in ...

George William Nasmyth - 1916 - 458 pages
...theories, we find many echoes of this philosophy, of which the following will serve as an illustration: In this world the nation that has trained itself to...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. * them repeat the same idea in different forms, and enough have been given to show the justification...
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New Wars for Old: Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force ...

John Haynes Holmes - 1916 - 402 pages
...trains a nation " to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease " and thus dooms it " to go down in the end before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities " ; and, on the other hand, applauds war on the ground that " by war alone can (men) acquire those...
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