The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 10
... chance to do the work - glad of the chance to show ourselves equal to one of the great tasks set modern civilization . But let us not deceive ourselves as to the importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into ...
... chance to do the work - glad of the chance to show ourselves equal to one of the great tasks set modern civilization . But let us not deceive ourselves as to the importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into ...
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... 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 , incredible to relate ...
... 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 , incredible to relate ...
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... chance for anything but such bloody violence . So it has been in the history of our own country . Of course our whole national his- tory has been one of expansion . Under Washington and Adams we expanded west- ward to the Mississippi ...
... chance for anything but such bloody violence . So it has been in the history of our own country . Of course our whole national his- tory has been one of expansion . Under Washington and Adams we expanded west- ward to the Mississippi ...
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... chance of ulti- mate success under democratic government . Discarding the two extremes , the men who deliberately work for evil , and the men who are unwilling or incapable of working for good , there remains the great mass of men who ...
... chance of ulti- mate success under democratic government . Discarding the two extremes , the men who deliberately work for evil , and the men who are unwilling or incapable of working for good , there remains the great mass of men who ...
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... chance of honest misun- derstanding of what I say . It is vital that every man who is in politics , as a man ought to be , with a disinterested purpose to serve the public , should strive steadily for reform ; that he should have the ...
... chance of honest misun- derstanding of what I say . It is vital that every man who is in politics , as a man ought to be , with a disinterested purpose to serve the public , should strive steadily for reform ; that he should have the ...
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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.