The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... build a navy and an 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 ...
... build a navy and an 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 ...
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... build up our power without our own borders . We must build the isthmian canal , and we must grasp the points of vantage which will enable us to have our say in deciding the destiny of the oceans of the East and the West . From So much ...
... build up our power without our own borders . We must build the isthmian canal , and we must grasp the points of vantage which will enable us to have our say in deciding the destiny of the oceans of the East and the West . From So much ...
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... build up a new navy , and under a succession of able and patriotic secretaries , of both political parties , the navy was gradually built up , until its material became equal to its splendid personnel , with the result that in the ...
... build up a new navy , and under a succession of able and patriotic secretaries , of both political parties , the navy was gradually built up , until its material became equal to its splendid personnel , with the result that in the ...
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... build the ships , the armor , and the guns ; and remember the admirals and captains who handled battle - ship ... building up . Read the " Congressional Record . " Find out the senators and congressmen who opposed the grants for building ...
... build the ships , the armor , and the guns ; and remember the admirals and captains who handled battle - ship ... building up . Read the " Congressional Record . " Find out the senators and congressmen who opposed the grants for building ...
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... building of any new fighting - ships for the navy . If , during the years to come , any disaster should befall our arms , afloat or ashore , and thereby any shame come to the United States , remember that the blame will lie upon the men ...
... building of any new fighting - ships for the navy . If , during the years to come , any disaster should befall our arms , afloat or ashore , and thereby any shame come to the United States , remember that the blame will lie upon the men ...
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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.