A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... prosperity . The upbuilding of any part of our country is a benefit to the whole , and every such effort as this to stimulate the resources and industry of a particular section is entitled to the heartiest support from every quarter of ...
... prosperity . The upbuilding of any part of our country is a benefit to the whole , and every such effort as this to stimulate the resources and industry of a particular section is entitled to the heartiest support from every quarter of ...
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... prosperity is deep and broad . The well - being which we are now enjoying can be secured only through general business pros- perity , and such prosperity is conditioned upon the energy and hard work , the sanity and the mutual respect ...
... prosperity is deep and broad . The well - being which we are now enjoying can be secured only through general business pros- perity , and such prosperity is conditioned upon the energy and hard work , the sanity and the mutual respect ...
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... prosperity so our interests will grow in that furthest west which is the immemorial east . The shadow of our destiny has already reached to the shores of Asia . The might of our people already looms large against the world - horizon ...
... prosperity so our interests will grow in that furthest west which is the immemorial east . The shadow of our destiny has already reached to the shores of Asia . The might of our people already looms large against the world - horizon ...
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... prosperity which we enjoy . We can not , in my judgment , avoid taking this attitude if we are to persevere in the course which we have outlined for ourselves as a nation during the past four years and there- fore I believe that it is ...
... prosperity which we enjoy . We can not , in my judgment , avoid taking this attitude if we are to persevere in the course which we have outlined for ourselves as a nation during the past four years and there- fore I believe that it is ...
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... prosperity as we see about us . But that is all that they can do . When the conditions have been created which make prosperity possible , then each individual man must achieve it for himself by his own energy and thrift and business ...
... prosperity as we see about us . But that is all that they can do . When the conditions have been created which make prosperity possible , then each individual man must achieve it for himself by his own energy and thrift and business ...
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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.