The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 4
... never wrongs his neighbor , who is prompt to help a friend , but who has those virile qualities neces- sary to win in the stern strife of actual life . It is hard to fail , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed . In this life ...
... never wrongs his neighbor , who is prompt to help a friend , but who has those virile qualities neces- sary to win in the stern strife of actual life . It is hard to fail , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed . In this life ...
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... never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not discuss with an audience like this the puerile suggestion that a nation of seventy millions of freemen is in danger of losing its liber- ties from the existence of an army of ...
... never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not discuss with an audience like this the puerile suggestion that a nation of seventy millions of freemen is in danger of losing its liber- ties from the existence of an army of ...
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... Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in command of divisions who had never before commanded three companies together in the field . Yet , incredible to relate , Congress has shown a queer inability ...
... Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in command of divisions who had never before commanded three companies together in the field . Yet , incredible to relate , Congress has shown a queer inability ...
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... never before in its history . On an even larger scale the same thing is true of England and the Sudan . The expansion of Eng- land throughout the Nile valley has been an incalculable gain for civilization . Any one who reads the ...
... never before in its history . On an even larger scale the same thing is true of England and the Sudan . The expansion of Eng- land throughout the Nile valley has been an incalculable gain for civilization . Any one who reads the ...
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... never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the funda- mental principles of morality . The successful ...
... never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the funda- mental principles of morality . The successful ...
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