The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 7
... course , always danger that we may not solve it aright ; but to refuse to under- take the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright . The timid man , the lazy man , the man who dis- trusts his country ...
... course , always danger that we may not solve it aright ; but to refuse to under- take the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright . The timid man , the lazy man , the man who dis- trusts his country ...
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... course would be the course of infamy . It would be followed at once by utter chaos in the wretched islands themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings ...
... course would be the course of infamy . It would be followed at once by utter chaos in the wretched islands themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings ...
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... course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and ...
... course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and ...
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... course we are bound to handle the affairs of our own household well . We must see that there is civic honesty , civic cleanliness , civic good sense in our home administration of city , State , and nation . We must strive for honesty in ...
... course we are bound to handle the affairs of our own household well . We must see that there is civic honesty , civic cleanliness , civic good sense in our home administration of city , State , and nation . We must strive for honesty in ...
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... course our whole national his- tory has been one of expansion . Under Washington and Adams we expanded west- ward to the Mississippi ; under Jefferson we expanded across the continent to the mouth of the Columbia ; under Monroe we ...
... course our whole national his- tory has been one of expansion . Under Washington and Adams we expanded west- ward to the Mississippi ; under Jefferson we expanded across the continent to the mouth of the Columbia ; under Monroe we ...
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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.