A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... such a position as ours . We have kept our word and done our duty , just as an honest individual in private life keeps his word and does his duty . Be it remembered , moreover , that after our four Theodore Roosevelt 7.
... such a position as ours . We have kept our word and done our duty , just as an honest individual in private life keeps his word and does his duty . Be it remembered , moreover , that after our four Theodore Roosevelt 7.
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... barbarous ferocity . " Verily , these men who thus foully slandered you have their heirs to - day in those who traduce our armies in the Philippines , who fix their eyes on individual deeds of wrong so keenly Theodore Roosevelt 31.
... barbarous ferocity . " Verily , these men who thus foully slandered you have their heirs to - day in those who traduce our armies in the Philippines , who fix their eyes on individual deeds of wrong so keenly Theodore Roosevelt 31.
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... individual , which is the only sure foundation upon which national independence can be built . Wherever in the Philippines the insurrection has been definitely and finally put down , there the individual Filipino already enjoys such ...
... individual , which is the only sure foundation upon which national independence can be built . Wherever in the Philippines the insurrection has been definitely and finally put down , there the individual Filipino already enjoys such ...
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... individual by the work of the individuals gathered into an association . Without this work of the association you can not give the highest expression to individual endeavor , and it would be a great misfortune if the military members of ...
... individual by the work of the individuals gathered into an association . Without this work of the association you can not give the highest expression to individual endeavor , and it would be a great misfortune if the military members of ...
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... individual initiative than has ever been neces- sary before if you are to come up to the highest level of officer - like per- formance of duty . As has been well said , the developments of warfare during the last few years have shown ...
... individual initiative than has ever been neces- sary before if you are to come up to the highest level of officer - like per- formance of duty . As has been well said , the developments of warfare during the last few years have shown ...
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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.