The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 57
... association which is striving to elevate the standard of life . We need clean , healthy newspapers , with clean ... associations , or , what is even better , strive to get into touch with the wage - workers , to understand them , and to ...
... association which is striving to elevate the standard of life . We need clean , healthy newspapers , with clean ... associations , or , what is even better , strive to get into touch with the wage - workers , to understand them , and to ...
Page 71
... association on a plane of equality , and for a common object . Any healthy - minded American is bound to think well of his fellow - Americans if he only gets to know them . The trouble is that he does not know them . If the banker and ...
... association on a plane of equality , and for a common object . Any healthy - minded American is bound to think well of his fellow - Americans if he only gets to know them . The trouble is that he does not know them . If the banker and ...
Page 72
... association with another group , the difficulties would be found to disappear so far as he was concerned . Very possibly he would become the ardent champion of the other group . Perhaps I may be pardoned for quoting my own experience as ...
... association with another group , the difficulties would be found to disappear so far as he was concerned . Very possibly he would become the ardent champion of the other group . Perhaps I may be pardoned for quoting my own experience as ...
Page 79
... association between the members for a common end or with a com- mon purpose . As long as men are separated by their caste lines , each body having its own amusements , interests , and occupations , they are certain to regard one another ...
... association between the members for a common end or with a com- mon purpose . As long as men are separated by their caste lines , each body having its own amusements , interests , and occupations , they are certain to regard one another ...
Page 80
... association where the dislocation of caste was complete , must recognize the truth of this as apparent . Every mining - camp , every successful volun- teer regiment , proves it . In such cases there is always some object which must be ...
... association where the dislocation of caste was complete , must recognize the truth of this as apparent . Every mining - camp , every successful volun- teer regiment , proves it . In such cases there is always some object which must be ...
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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.