A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... line accuracy of a watch . His industry gained stimulation with the rest , and he is now so much the husband of time that he might be described as pos- sessing a split - second attachment . Coming from Harvard , Mr. Roosevelt plunged ...
... line accuracy of a watch . His industry gained stimulation with the rest , and he is now so much the husband of time that he might be described as pos- sessing a split - second attachment . Coming from Harvard , Mr. Roosevelt plunged ...
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... lines : In the line of what , for lack of a better word , we will call philanthropy ; in all lines of 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 ...
... lines : In the line of what , for lack of a better word , we will call philanthropy ; in all lines of 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 ...
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... lines . They are good omens for the future , these actions ; that action which culminated to - day in establishing the free Republic of Cuba ; that action which made our country the first to reach out a generous helping hand to those ...
... lines . They are good omens for the future , these actions ; that action which culminated to - day in establishing the free Republic of Cuba ; that action which made our country the first to reach out a generous helping hand to those ...
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... lines in the march of progress and civilization — the American people , through me , extend their thanks to you , and in their name I beg to express my acknowledgments to the embassy that has come . here , and to President Loubet , and ...
... lines in the march of progress and civilization — the American people , through me , extend their thanks to you , and in their name I beg to express my acknowledgments to the embassy that has come . here , and to President Loubet , and ...
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... lines of supervision and regulation of the great industrial combinations which have become so marked a feature in ... line . In great crises when fundamental issues are at stake party differences cease . It is eminently proper that on ...
... lines of supervision and regulation of the great industrial combinations which have become so marked a feature in ... line . In great crises when fundamental issues are at stake party differences cease . It is eminently proper that on ...
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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.