A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905, Volume 1Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906 |
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... questions which the people ask . The common error of men is to insist upon answering questions which they put ... question too soon , never answers one too late . Thus he is a finished captain of men . Also he commands his people ...
... questions which the people ask . The common error of men is to insist upon answering questions which they put ... question too soon , never answers one too late . Thus he is a finished captain of men . Also he commands his people ...
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... question for which his ignorance knows no reply , he has but to cough , look grave , mention the business as something difficult and deep , and say he must consult the books . You respect him the more ; your reverence goes clambering ...
... question for which his ignorance knows no reply , he has but to cough , look grave , mention the business as something difficult and deep , and say he must consult the books . You respect him the more ; your reverence goes clambering ...
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... question than the war for the Union should have been a party question . At this moment the man in highest office in the Philippine Islands is the Vice - Governor , General Luke Wright , of Tennessee , who gallantly wore the gray in the ...
... question than the war for the Union should have been a party question . At this moment the man in highest office in the Philippine Islands is the Vice - Governor , General Luke Wright , of Tennessee , who gallantly wore the gray in the ...
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... question that , taken as a whole , the average graduate of West Point , during this hundred years , has given a greater sum of service to the country through his life than has the average graduate of any other institution in this broad ...
... question that , taken as a whole , the average graduate of West Point , during this hundred years , has given a greater sum of service to the country through his life than has the average graduate of any other institution in this broad ...
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... question must make , when I say that , while we had a right to expect that West Point would do well , we could not have expected that she would do so well as she has done . I want to say one word to those who are graduating here , and ...
... question must make , when I say that , while we had a right to expect that West Point would do well , we could not have expected that she would do so well as she has done . I want to say one word to those who are graduating here , and ...
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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.