The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 11
... action , to the daring lieutenants who braved death in the smaller craft , and to the heads of bureaus at Washington who saw that the ships were so commanded , so armed , so equipped , so well engined , as to insure the best results ...
... action , to the daring lieutenants who braved death in the smaller craft , and to the heads of bureaus at Washington who saw that the ships were so commanded , so armed , so equipped , so well engined , as to insure the best results ...
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... action of the great powers , while Turkey inflicted the last hor- rors of butchery , torture , and outrage upon the men , women , and children of despairing Armenia . War was avoided ; peace was kept ; but what a peace ! Infinitely ...
... action of the great powers , while Turkey inflicted the last hor- rors of butchery , torture , and outrage upon the men , women , and children of despairing Armenia . War was avoided ; peace was kept ; but what a peace ! Infinitely ...
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... action is almost as rare as the necessity for a revolution ; and to take such ground continually , in season and out of season , is the sign of an un- healthy nature . It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when com ...
... action is almost as rare as the necessity for a revolution ; and to take such ground continually , in season and out of season , is the sign of an un- healthy nature . It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when com ...
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... action is normally as abortive as that of the queer abolitionist group who , in 1864 , nom- inated a candidate against Abraham Lincoln when he was running for reëlection to the Presidency . The men entering this move- ment represented ...
... action is normally as abortive as that of the queer abolitionist group who , in 1864 , nom- inated a candidate against Abraham Lincoln when he was running for reëlection to the Presidency . The men entering this move- ment represented ...
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... action , and denounced him as compromising with the forces of evil , as being a practical politician - which he was , if practicality is held to include wisdom and high purpose . He did not permit himself to be affected by their ...
... action , and denounced him as compromising with the forces of evil , as being a practical politician - which he was , if practicality is held to include wisdom and high purpose . He did not permit himself to be affected by their ...
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Page 288 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 4 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Page 2 - 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.
Page 56 - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Page 20 - I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.
Page 9 - We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond.