The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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... THE HEROIC VIRTUES 247 CHAPTER XVII NATIONAL DUTIES 263 CHAPTER XVIII THE LABOR QUESTION . 283 CHAPTER XIX CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 303 ILLUSTRATIONS THEODORE ROOSEVELT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GEORGE DEWEY ULYSSES S. GRANT Contents vi.
... THE HEROIC VIRTUES 247 CHAPTER XVII NATIONAL DUTIES 263 CHAPTER XVIII THE LABOR QUESTION . 283 CHAPTER XIX CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 303 ILLUSTRATIONS THEODORE ROOSEVELT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GEORGE DEWEY ULYSSES S. GRANT Contents vi.
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... duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from seeing us do our share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our ...
... duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from seeing us do our share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our ...
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... duties— duties to the nation and duties to the race . We cannot sit huddled within our own border and avow ourselves merely an assemblage well - to - do hucksters who care nothing for wh happens beyond . Such a policy would defe even ...
... duties— duties to the nation and duties to the race . We cannot sit huddled within our own border and avow ourselves merely an assemblage well - to - do hucksters who care nothing for wh happens beyond . Such a policy would defe even ...
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... duty . If we drove out a medieval tyranny only to make room for savage anarchy , we had better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we ...
... duty . If we drove out a medieval tyranny only to make room for savage anarchy , we had better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we ...
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... duty has taken at the moment . Of course we are bound to handle the affairs of our own household well . We must see ... duty is to his own home , but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State ; for if he fails in this ...
... duty has taken at the moment . Of course we are bound to handle the affairs of our own household well . We must see ... duty is to his own home , but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State ; for if he fails in this ...
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