 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 396 pages
...us are poorer for every base or ignoble deed done by an American, for every instance of selfishness or weakness or folly on the part of the people as...that honorable peace which alone is worth having. xm NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER1 IN National Life and Character : a forecast, Mr. Charles H. Pearson,... | |
 | United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 342 pages
...make each American nobler and better. Every man among us is which, in the past, the nation has trities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in...that honorable peace which alone is worth having. VI NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER1 IN National Life and Character; a Forecast, Mr. Charles H. Pearson,... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 544 pages
...make each American nobler and better. Every man among us is so much the better prepared for the duties of citizenship because of the perils over which, in...to deserve it; and we ask to be given the means to ensure that honorable peace which alone is worth having. VI NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER* IN "National... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1897 - 392 pages
...make each American nobler and better. Every man among us is so much the better prepared for the duties of citizenship because of the perils over which, in...to deserve it; and we ask to be given the means to ensure that honorable peace which alone is worth having. VI NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER* IN "National... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1897 - 892 pages
...let me repeat that we ask for a great navy; we ask for an armament fit for the nation's needs, nor primarily to fight, but to avert fighting. Preparedness...to deserve it, and we ask to be given the means to ensure that honorable peace which alone is worth having. L [COPTEIOHTED.] US NAVAL INSTITUTE, ANNAPOLIS,... | |
 | International Congregational Council - 1900 - 676 pages
...finest lines in Lowell's noble war poetry is that in which he warns the men of his generation that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. So the men of our generation need to be warned in time, that civil liberty and clean, orderly government... | |
 | Robert Cornelius V. Meyers - 1902 - 638 pages
...arbitration of war, and to pour out its blood, its treasure, and its tears like water, rather than to submit to the loss of honor and renown. "In closing,...that honorable peace which alone is worth having." Imagine this speech, delivered when the troubles with Spain were fomenting, and when youth and bravery... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 394 pages
...make each American nobler and better. Every man among us is so much the better prepared for the duties of citizenship because of the perils over which, in...to deserve it; and we ask to be given the means to ensure that honorable peace which alone is worth having. VI NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER* IN "National... | |
 | Pan American Union - 1904 - 1434 pages
...the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonest, or too unintelligent... | |
 | 1904 - 1198 pages
...the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards. Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful, too dishonest, or too unintelligent... | |
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... submit to the loss of honor and renown. In closing, let me repeat that we ask for a great navy, we ask for an armament fit for the nation's needs, not primarily to fight, but to avert fighting. Preparedness deters the foe and maintains right by the... 
