The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... army adequate to our needs ; shrink from seeing us do our share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our soldiers and sailors has driven the Spanish flag . These ...
... army adequate to our needs ; shrink from seeing us do our share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our soldiers and sailors has driven the Spanish flag . These ...
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... army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as absolutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships 10 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as absolutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships 10 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. unprepared as the army . At that time our ships could not have encountered with suc- cess the fleets of Spain any more than now- adays we can put untrained soldiers , no matter how brave , who are ...
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. unprepared as the army . At that time our ships could not have encountered with suc- cess the fleets of Spain any more than now- adays we can put untrained soldiers , no matter how brave , who are ...
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... army has never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not dis- cuss with an audience like this the puerile suggestion that a nation of seventy millions of freemen is in danger of losing its liberties from the existence of an army ...
... army has never been built up as it should be built up . I shall not dis- cuss with an audience like this the puerile suggestion that a nation of seventy millions of freemen is in danger of losing its liberties from the existence of an army ...
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... army must be given the chance to exercise in large bodies . Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in com- mand of divisions who had never before commanded three companies together in the field . Yet ...
... army must be given the chance to exercise in large bodies . Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in com- mand of divisions who had never before commanded three companies together in the field . Yet ...
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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.