The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 19
... becoming fit . Others may in time become fit but at present can only take part in self - government under a wise super- vision , at once firm and beneficent . We have driven Spanish tyranny from the islands . If we now let it be ...
... becoming fit . Others may in time become fit but at present can only take part in self - government under a wise super- vision , at once firm and beneficent . We have driven Spanish tyranny from the islands . If we now let it be ...
Page 29
... become an actual fact , nothing could have prevented a repetition in North America of the devastating anarchic warfare that obtained for three quarters of a century in South America after the yoke of Spain was thrown off . We escaped ...
... become an actual fact , nothing could have prevented a repetition in North America of the devastating anarchic warfare that obtained for three quarters of a century in South America after the yoke of Spain was thrown off . We escaped ...
Page 37
... becoming overpeaceful , had lost the power of keeping peace with a strong hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have forgotten the defeat of ...
... becoming overpeaceful , had lost the power of keeping peace with a strong hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have forgotten the defeat of ...
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... becomes a pronounced zigzag instead of a straight line ; and if it becomes too pronounced he is lost , no matter to which side the zigzag may take him . Nor is he lost only as regards his own career . What is far more serious , his ...
... becomes a pronounced zigzag instead of a straight line ; and if it becomes too pronounced he is lost , no matter to which side the zigzag may take him . Nor is he lost only as regards his own career . What is far more serious , his ...
Page 53
... becomes a power for evil , and , taken together , all the little groups give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevat- ing , kaleidoscopic character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge ...
... becomes a power for evil , and , taken together , all the little groups give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevat- ing , kaleidoscopic character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge ...
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