The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... civilized man , who has lost the great fighting , masterful virtues , the ignorant man , and the man of dull mind , whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills " stern men with empires in their brains " -all these ...
... civilized man , who has lost the great fighting , masterful virtues , the ignorant man , and the man of dull mind , whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills " stern men with empires in their brains " -all these ...
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... civilized people . It is not necessary to point out that the teaching which would produce such a condition of things is fundamentally im- moral . Again , peace may come only through war . There are men in our country who seem- ingly ...
... civilized people . It is not necessary to point out that the teaching which would produce such a condition of things is fundamentally im- moral . Again , peace may come only through war . There are men in our country who seem- ingly ...
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... civilized communities are very dreadful , and as nations grow more and more civilized we have every reason , not merely to hope , but to believe that they will grow rarer and rarer . Even with civilized peoples , as was shown by our own ...
... civilized communities are very dreadful , and as nations grow more and more civilized we have every reason , not merely to hope , but to believe that they will grow rarer and rarer . Even with civilized peoples , as was shown by our own ...
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... civilized . It can only come when both parties to a possible quarrel feel the same spirit . With a barbarous nation peace is the exceptional condition . On the border between civilization and barbarism war is generally normal because it ...
... civilized . It can only come when both parties to a possible quarrel feel the same spirit . With a barbarous nation peace is the exceptional condition . On the border between civilization and barbarism war is generally normal because it ...
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... civilized men were yearly dragged into slavery by the Moorish pirates . A degrading peace was purchased by the civilized powers by the payment of tribute . Our own country was one among the tributary nations which thus paid blood ...
... civilized men were yearly dragged into slavery by the Moorish pirates . A degrading peace was purchased by the civilized powers by the payment of tribute . Our own country was one among the tributary nations which thus paid blood ...
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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.