A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... able to see them . I have served with some of your men , for some men born in this State were in my regiment . On one occasion I had to choose twenty sharpshooters and two of them were North Carolinians . I thank you and wish you all ...
... able to see them . I have served with some of your men , for some men born in this State were in my regiment . On one occasion I had to choose twenty sharpshooters and two of them were North Carolinians . I thank you and wish you all ...
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... able to prolong the war at all only by recourse to acts each one of which put them beyond the pale of civilized war- fare . We would have been justified by Abraham Lincoln's rules of war in infinitely greater severity than has been ...
... able to prolong the war at all only by recourse to acts each one of which put them beyond the pale of civilized war- fare . We would have been justified by Abraham Lincoln's rules of war in infinitely greater severity than has been ...
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... able to work with the best and most delicate apparatus ; and never for one moment forget - espe- cially the higher officers among you that in time of need you will have to do your work with the scantiest possible apparatus ! and that ...
... able to work with the best and most delicate apparatus ; and never for one moment forget - espe- cially the higher officers among you that in time of need you will have to do your work with the scantiest possible apparatus ! and that ...
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... able to do all of that , and if in addition he has not got the fighting edge , you had better have him out of the army ; he will be a damage in it . In a battle hereafter each man is going to be to a considerable extent alone . The ...
... able to do all of that , and if in addition he has not got the fighting edge , you had better have him out of the army ; he will be a damage in it . In a battle hereafter each man is going to be to a considerable extent alone . The ...
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... able to show that you were not play soldiers only , but that you could do your work . That is what counts - having learned your duties so as to apply them whenever the necessity shall arise not only in handling yourselves well on the ...
... able to show that you were not play soldiers only , but that you could do your work . That is what counts - having learned your duties so as to apply them whenever the necessity shall arise not only in handling yourselves well on the ...
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Page 568 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 475 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 667 - We can admire the heroic valor, the sincerity, the self-devotion shown alike by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray; and...
Page 220 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Page 219 - In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any nonAmerican power at the expense of any American power on American soil.
Page 556 - I have striven, and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way. So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom. While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result. May I ask those who have not differed...
Page 556 - The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
Page 658 - On the one hand, this country would certainly decline to go to war to prevent a foreign government from collecting a just debt; on the other hand, it is very inadvisable to permit any foreign power to take possession, even temporarily, of the...
Page 734 - Massachusetts, prepared for the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town, in response to a resolution of the Historical Society of Old Newbury.
Page 186 - Our only difference is that those who do not agree with us have no confidence in the virtue or capacity or high purpose or good faith of this free people as a civilizing agency, while we believe that the century of free government which the American people have enjoyed has not rendered them irresolute and faithless, but has, fitted them for the great task of lifting up and assisting to better conditions and larger liberty those distant peoples who, through the issue of battle, have become our wards.