The Ideals of Theodore RooseveltD. Appleton, 1923 - 329 pages |
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... once said that when a question , public or private , had to be decided he tried , with his whole heart and mind , to think what was the right way to decide it , and then he decided the question in that way . I am tempted to relate an ...
... once said that when a question , public or private , had to be decided he tried , with his whole heart and mind , to think what was the right way to decide it , and then he decided the question in that way . I am tempted to relate an ...
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... once declared , " I tried faithfully to do what father would have done . " His sister , Mrs. Robinson , writes in her book , " My brother's great love for his human kind was a direct inheritance from the man who was one of the founders ...
... once declared , " I tried faithfully to do what father would have done . " His sister , Mrs. Robinson , writes in her book , " My brother's great love for his human kind was a direct inheritance from the man who was one of the founders ...
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... , and the mother sympathe- tic with Southern views , the clash of the Civil War found a mild echo in the Roosevelt house- hold . Theodore tells once of praying one evening with fervor for the success of the Union arms 8 IDEALS OF ROOSEVELT.
... , and the mother sympathe- tic with Southern views , the clash of the Civil War found a mild echo in the Roosevelt house- hold . Theodore tells once of praying one evening with fervor for the success of the Union arms 8 IDEALS OF ROOSEVELT.
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... Once he was in office , once he learned the extent of the circle of graft , greed , and corruption that disgraced the state , he went to work with both fists . It is a mistake to suppose that Roosevelt went into politics actuated solely ...
... Once he was in office , once he learned the extent of the circle of graft , greed , and corruption that disgraced the state , he went to work with both fists . It is a mistake to suppose that Roosevelt went into politics actuated solely ...
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... once ; years passed before he fully appreciated the hollow mockery of many so - called American institutions . always before his mind was the necessity he and his associates were under of applying the elemental virtues - steadfast ...
... once ; years passed before he fully appreciated the hollow mockery of many so - called American institutions . always before his mind was the necessity he and his associates were under of applying the elemental virtues - steadfast ...
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Page 44 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page 96 - All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Page 97 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments...
Page 219 - 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 49 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 56 - The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare of the State, in the long run, depends on the uprightness of the citizen so strongly laid down.
Page 273 - After long years of iron effort, and of failure that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership of the Republic, at the moment when that leadership had become the stupendous world-task of the time. He grew to know greatness, but never ease. Success came to him, but never happiness, save that which springs from doing well a painful and a vital task.
Page 271 - ... never in any country seen a more eager, high-minded, and efficient set of public servants, men more useful and more creditable to their country, than the men then doing the work of the American Government in Washington and in the field.
Page 183 - Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the Irish or German vote, or the Irishman or German who votes as an Irishman or German, is despicable, for all citizens of this commonwealth should vote solely as Americans ; but he is not a whit less despicable than the voter who votes against a good American, merely because...
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