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The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses - Page 7
by Theodore Roosevelt - 2006 - 340 pages
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Public Papers of Governor

New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...were rejected; that the suffering and loss, the blackness of sorrow and despair, were unflinching!/ faced, and the years of strife endured; for in the...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is, whether we...
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Imperialism and Liberty

Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 516 pages
...succeed men and nations must be devils, let us therefore become devils and so fulfill the law of God. "In this world the nation that has trained itself...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." Acting on this sublime principle of pigpens we must make America a fighting-hell like Europe. That...
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Imperialism and Liberty

Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 514 pages
...fulfill the law of God. "In this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unv/arlike and isolated ease is bound in the end to go down before...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." Acting on this sublime principle of pigpens we must make America a fighting-hell like Europe. That...
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Public Papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Governor, 1899[-1900], Volume 1

New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is, whether we...
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Modern Eloquence, Volume 8

Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...armies of Grant I Let us, the children of the men who proved themselves equal to the mighty days—let us, the children of the men who carried the great...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we...
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Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical ...

Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss, the blackness or sorrow and despair, were unflinchingly faced, and...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we...
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Life of William McKinley, Our Martyred President: With Short Biographies of ...

Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...mighty American republic placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations. THIS AGE HAS ITS TASKS. "We of this generation do not have to face a task...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we...
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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them ! We can not, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We can not avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we...
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The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States

Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...fathers TR— ii faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform th'em ! We can not, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We can not avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is, whether we...
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Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations

Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...beyond them ; sunk in a scrambling commercialism ; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, toil and risk ; busying ourselves only with the wants...have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities ^Jlf we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world....
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