A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... effort to stir up those dark and evil forces which lurk in each man's breast , and which need to be kept down , not excited . The Commander - in - Chief spoke of the great and good President- of President McKinley - who died for the ...
... effort to stir up those dark and evil forces which lurk in each man's breast , and which need to be kept down , not excited . The Commander - in - Chief spoke of the great and good President- of President McKinley - who died for the ...
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... effort as this to stimulate the resources and industry of a particular section is entitled to the heartiest support from every quarter of the Union . Thoroughly good national work can be done only if each of us works hard for himself ...
... effort as this to stimulate the resources and industry of a particular section is entitled to the heartiest support from every quarter of the Union . Thoroughly good national work can be done only if each of us works hard for himself ...
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... effort for public decency . Remember always that the man who does a thing so that it is worth doing is always a man who does his work for the work's sake . Some- where in Ruskin there is a sentence to the effect that the man who does a ...
... effort for public decency . Remember always that the man who does a thing so that it is worth doing is always a man who does his work for the work's sake . Some- where in Ruskin there is a sentence to the effect that the man who does a ...
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... effort must be made , and has been and is being made , to find out every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops , to punish those guil : of it , and to take , if possible , even stronger measures than have already been taken to ...
... effort must be made , and has been and is being made , to find out every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops , to punish those guil : of it , and to take , if possible , even stronger measures than have already been taken to ...
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... effort has been to take care of itself in the field and in all that pertains to the duties of a soldier . I think , gentlemen , that much help can be given to the National Guard of the States by the action . of the United States ...
... effort has been to take care of itself in the field and in all that pertains to the duties of a soldier . I think , gentlemen , that much help can be given to the National Guard of the States by the action . of the United States ...
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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.