Theodore Roosevelt, the Boy and the ManMacmillan, 1907 - 324 pages |
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... asked . " No , " the fisherman answered . " Then one - fourth of your life is lost . Do you know algebra ? " " No. " " Then one - half of your life is lost . Do you know geometry ? " But before the fisherman could con- fess his ...
... asked . " No , " the fisherman answered . " Then one - fourth of your life is lost . Do you know algebra ? " " No. " " Then one - half of your life is lost . Do you know geometry ? " But before the fisherman could con- fess his ...
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... asked this graduate what he was going to do now that he had received an education . " Oh , really , do you know , pro- fessor , " the callow citizen replied , " it does not seem to me that there is anything much worth while . " Mr ...
... asked this graduate what he was going to do now that he had received an education . " Oh , really , do you know , pro- fessor , " the callow citizen replied , " it does not seem to me that there is anything much worth while . " Mr ...
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... asked to stay at the polls on election day was very sorry that he had an engagement to go quail shoot- ing . Nevertheless , Mr. Roosevelt was reëlected , although his party was routed almost everywhere , for that was the year in which ...
... asked to stay at the polls on election day was very sorry that he had an engagement to go quail shoot- ing . Nevertheless , Mr. Roosevelt was reëlected , although his party was routed almost everywhere , for that was the year in which ...
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... asked them how much money it would take to go into the business . They told him it would spoil the looks of $ 45,000 . Then he asked how much of that sum would need to be in cash , and they answered that $ 10,000 would be enough . In ...
... asked them how much money it would take to go into the business . They told him it would spoil the looks of $ 45,000 . Then he asked how much of that sum would need to be in cash , and they answered that $ 10,000 would be enough . In ...
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... asked no favor , shirked no labor , and ran from no danger . They , the real plainsmen , had no more use than he for braggarts and brawlers , and he never hesitated to show his contempt for the swaggering " bad men " of his region ...
... asked no favor , shirked no labor , and ran from no danger . They , the real plainsmen , had no more use than he for braggarts and brawlers , and he never hesitated to show his contempt for the swaggering " bad men " of his region ...
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Page 225 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 170 - I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
Page 293 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 59 - In after years, there shall come forever to his mind the memory of endless prairies shimmering in the bright sun; of vast snow-clad wastes lying desolate under gray skies; of the melancholy marshes, of the rush of mighty rivers; of the breath of the evergreen forest in summer; of the crooning of ice-armored pines at the touch of the winds of winter; of cataracts roaring between hoary mountain masses; of all the innumerable sights and sounds of the wilderness; of its immensity and mystery and of the...
Page 216 - Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.' If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
Page 50 - It is now, Mr. Chairman, less than a quarter of a century since, in this city, the great Republican party for the first time organized for victory, and nominated Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, who broke the fetters of the slave and rent them asunder forever. It is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this Convention one of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the blood and the treasure so lavishly spent by the founders of the Republican party.
Page 109 - Order the squadron, except the Monocacy, to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the event of declaration of war Spain, your duty will be to see that the Spanish squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in Philippine Islands. Keep Olympia until further orders.
Page 203 - On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.
Page 134 - There could be no more honorable burial than that of these men in a common grave — Indian and cow-boy, miner, packer, and college athlete — the man of unknown ancestry from the lonely Western plains, and the man who carried on his watch the crest of the Stuyvesants and the Fishes...
Page 45 - ... hand. And so we were able to get things done. We did not agree in all things, but we did in some, and those we pulled at together. That was my first lesson in real politics. It is just this : If you are cast on a desert island with only a screw-driver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't. So with men.