The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 22
... practical methods . Above all , let us shrink from no strife , moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dan- gerous ...
... practical methods . Above all , let us shrink from no strife , moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dan- gerous ...
Page 42
... practical methods— the quality which makes men efficient . Both qualities are absolutely essential . The absence of either makes the presence of the other worth- less or worse . If there is one tendency of the day which more 42 The ...
... practical methods— the quality which makes men efficient . Both qualities are absolutely essential . The absence of either makes the presence of the other worth- less or worse . If there is one tendency of the day which more 42 The ...
Page 44
... practical fashion , and by deeds as well as by words , strives in some sort actually to realize his ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is imprac- ticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the ...
... practical fashion , and by deeds as well as by words , strives in some sort actually to realize his ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is imprac- ticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the ...
Page 47
... practical results ought not to need a much longer shrift . In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness , and who , in reality , do their feeble best for ...
... practical results ought not to need a much longer shrift . In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness , and who , in reality , do their feeble best for ...
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... practical reformer , from the public man who strives in practical fashion for decency , not at all in superior morality , but in inferior sense . He is not more virtuous ; he is less virtuous . is merely more foolish . When Wendell ...
... practical reformer , from the public man who strives in practical fashion for decency , not at all in superior morality , but in inferior sense . He is not more virtuous ; he is less virtuous . is merely more foolish . When Wendell ...
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