The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 12
... causes of dis- aster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as abso- lutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships could not have ...
... causes of dis- aster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as abso- lutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships could not have ...
Page 14
... cause to feel proud of the valor of our sea - captains , of the renown of our flag . Their motives may or may not have been good , but their acts were heavily fraught with evil . They did ill for the national honor , and we won in spite ...
... cause to feel proud of the valor of our sea - captains , of the renown of our flag . Their motives may or may not have been good , but their acts were heavily fraught with evil . They did ill for the national honor , and we won in spite ...
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... cause of civilization . So , if we do our duty aright in the Philippines , we will add to that national renown which is the highest and finest part of national life , will greatly benefit the people of the Philippine Islands , and ...
... cause of civilization . So , if we do our duty aright in the Philippines , we will add to that national renown which is the highest and finest part of national life , will greatly benefit the people of the Philippine Islands , and ...
Page 28
... cause anything like the misery that is caused in the aggregate by unjust dealing toward one's neigh- bors in the commercial and social world ; and to condemn all war is just as logical as to condemn all business and all social relations ...
... cause anything like the misery that is caused in the aggregate by unjust dealing toward one's neigh- bors in the commercial and social world ; and to condemn all war is just as logical as to condemn all business and all social relations ...
Page 34
... cause was simply that we were in contact with a country held by savages or half - savages . Where we abut on Canada there is no danger of war , nor is there any danger where we abut on the well- settled regions of Mexico . But elsewhere ...
... cause was simply that we were in contact with a country held by savages or half - savages . Where we abut on Canada there is no danger of war , nor is there any danger where we abut on the well- settled regions of Mexico . But elsewhere ...
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