The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 14
... evil . They did ill for the national honor , and we won in spite of their sinister opposition . Now , apply all this to our public men of to - day . Our army has never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not discuss with an ...
... evil . They did ill for the national honor , and we won in spite of their sinister opposition . Now , apply all this to our public men of to - day . Our army has never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not discuss with an ...
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... evil of war may be a less evil than cringing to iniquity . Captain Mahan , than whom there is not in the country a man whom we can more appropriately designate by the fine and high phrase , " a Chris- tian gentleman , " and who is ...
... evil of war may be a less evil than cringing to iniquity . Captain Mahan , than whom there is not in the country a man whom we can more appropriately designate by the fine and high phrase , " a Chris- tian gentleman , " and who is ...
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... evil . The wisest and most far - seeing champions of peace will ever remember that , in the first place , to be good it must be righteous , for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war ; and , in the second place , that ...
... evil . The wisest and most far - seeing champions of peace will ever remember that , in the first place , to be good it must be righteous , for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war ; and , in the second place , that ...
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... evil . It is true that the impracticable idealist differs from the hard - working , sincere man who in practical fashion , and by deeds as well as by words , strives in some sort actually to realize his ideal ; but the difference lies ...
... evil . It is true that the impracticable idealist differs from the hard - working , sincere man who in practical fashion , and by deeds as well as by words , strives in some sort actually to realize his ideal ; but the difference lies ...
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... evil is all wrong , just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong ; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agree- ment ...
... evil is all wrong , just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong ; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agree- ment ...
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