 We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.  The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses - Page 3by Theodore Roosevelt - 2006 - 340 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1918 - 500 pages
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 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 516 pages
...that organizes its utter resources into an incomparable mechanism of slaughter, because these are the "virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life," in the world's hellish arena. To succeed men and nations must be devils, let us therefore become devils... | |
 | 1906 - 416 pages
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 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science,...fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. •VJn this life we get nothing save by effort. •} Freedom from effort in the present merely means... | |
 | Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 388 pages
...wins the splendid ultimate triumph." Another paragraph is equally interesting and elevating : — " We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire...; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." And to this he adds : — "As it is with the individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth... | |
 | Henry Dwight Porter - 1911 - 424 pages
...velvet bloom leading us down to the dales." — Anon. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. — TR xvin A MISSIONARY FURLOUGH ON the llth of February Dr. Ament had written, " My plans are indefinite,... | |
 | 1912 - 520 pages
...man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help his friend , but who has those virile qualities necessary...hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to suceed. S. 29 : The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must carry if... | |
 | 1912 - 504 pages
...who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor , who is prompt to help his friend , but who has those virile qualities necessary...life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to havetried to suceed. S. 29 : The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must... | |
 | Lucia True Ames Mead - 1912 - 310 pages
...which this nation must carry. We do not admire the man of timid peace. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. * Upon the writer of newspaper headlines and editorials there is a greater moral responsibility than... | |
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