Theodore Roosevelt, the CitizenOutlook Company, 1904 - 471 pages |
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Page 11
... learned from him how deep was the impression made by his gentle courtesy toward his wife when he brought her to the lodging - house on his visits . " To see him put on her wraps and escort her from room to room was beautiful , " he said ...
... learned from him how deep was the impression made by his gentle courtesy toward his wife when he brought her to the lodging - house on his visits . " To see him put on her wraps and escort her from room to room was beautiful , " he said ...
Page 17
... learned something he wanted to know , and cultivated the habits of study , of concentration , at the time when all boys are impatient of these things and most of them shirk them when they can , leaving every task unfinished . And all ...
... learned something he wanted to know , and cultivated the habits of study , of concentration , at the time when all boys are impatient of these things and most of them shirk them when they can , leaving every task unfinished . And all ...
Page 40
... learned . But , as I said , the years passed , and , having graduated , Roosevelt went abroad to spend a year with alternate study in Germany and mountain - climbing in Switzerland by way of letting off steam . Probably the verdict men ...
... learned . But , as I said , the years passed , and , having graduated , Roosevelt went abroad to spend a year with alternate study in Germany and mountain - climbing in Switzerland by way of letting off steam . Probably the verdict men ...
Page 90
... learned to shoot about as well at a wild animal as at a target . " It is the story of everything he undertook : his opportunities were in nothing unusually great , except in his marvelous mastery over his own mind , his rare faculty of ...
... learned to shoot about as well at a wild animal as at a target . " It is the story of everything he undertook : his opportunities were in nothing unusually great , except in his marvelous mastery over his own mind , his rare faculty of ...
Page 122
... learned afterward that among all the countless messages of sympathy and cheer that came to him in those hard days , the one of them all he prized highest and that touched him most deeply was from Grover Cleveland . The Six Years ' War ...
... learned afterward that among all the countless messages of sympathy and cheer that came to him in those hard days , the one of them all he prized highest and that touched him most deeply was from Grover Cleveland . The Six Years ' War ...
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Page 412 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 377 - No person shall be refused employment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization, and there should be no discriminating against or interference with any employee who is not a member of a labor organization by members of such organization.
Page 378 - I am President of all the people of the United States without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all. In the employment and dismissal of men in the Government service, I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him...
Page 417 - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. He is bound to do all the good possible. Yet he must consider the question of expediency, in order that he may do all the good possible, for otherwise he will do none.
Page 406 - In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.
Page 418 - Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing...
Page 85 - ... through the hanging smoke the first thing I saw was his paw as he made a vicious side blow at me. The rush of his charge carried him past. As he struck he lurched forward, leaving a pool of bright blood where his muzzle hit the ground; but he recovered himself and made two or three jumps onward, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the magazine, my rifle holding only four, all of which I had fired. Then he tried to pull up, but as he did so his muscles seemed suddenly to give...
Page 420 - We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country.
Page 409 - The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is, that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight...
Page 415 - Now I intend to try. But the measure of my success is going to largely depend upon the support that I get from just such men as I see before me tonight. I am a loyal party man, but I believe very firmly that I can best render aid to my party by doing all that in me lies to make that party responsive to the needs of the State, responsive to the needs of the people, and just so far as I work along those lines I have the right to challenge the support of every decent man, no matter what his party may...