The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... commands among those who think crookedly or not at all makes this kind of success per- haps the most dangerous of all the influences that threaten our national life . Our stan- dard of public and private conduct will never be raised to ...
... commands among those who think crookedly or not at all makes this kind of success per- haps the most dangerous of all the influences that threaten our national life . Our stan- dard of public and private conduct will never be raised to ...
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... , character that is active in the per- formance of virtue no less than firm in the refusal to do aught that is vicious or de- graded . THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS PUBLISHED IN CHARACTER AND SUCCESS 121.
... , character that is active in the per- formance of virtue no less than firm in the refusal to do aught that is vicious or de- graded . THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS PUBLISHED IN CHARACTER AND SUCCESS 121.
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS PUBLISHED IN THE " OUTLOOK , " MAY 12 , 1900 THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS THE HE.
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS PUBLISHED IN THE " OUTLOOK , " MAY 12 , 1900 THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMAND- MENTS IN POLITICS THE HE.
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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.