The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose . If the freedom thus pur- chased is used aright , and the man still does actual work , though of a different kind , whether as a writer or a general , whether in the ...
... fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose . If the freedom thus pur- chased is used aright , and the man still does actual work , though of a different kind , whether as a writer or a general , whether in the ...
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... fact that they are despicable . When once we have put down armed re- sistance , when once our rule is acknow- ledged , then an even more difficult task will begin , for then we must see to it that the islands are administered with ...
... fact that they are despicable . When once we have put down armed re- sistance , when once our rule is acknow- ledged , then an even more difficult task will begin , for then we must see to it that the islands are administered with ...
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... fact , nothing could have prevented a repetition in North Amer- ica of the devastating anarchic warfare that obtained for three quarters of a century in South America after the yoke of Spain was thrown off . We escaped generations of an ...
... fact , nothing could have prevented a repetition in North Amer- ica of the devastating anarchic warfare that obtained for three quarters of a century in South America after the yoke of Spain was thrown off . We escaped generations of an ...
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... fact that nowadays the reverse takes place , and that the barbarians recede or are conquered , with the attendant fact that peace follows their retrogression or conquest , is due solely to the power of the mighty civilized races which ...
... fact that nowadays the reverse takes place , and that the barbarians recede or are conquered , with the attendant fact that peace follows their retrogression or conquest , is due solely to the power of the mighty civilized races which ...
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... fact that the first is impracticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the other may be even higher . At times a man must cut loose from his as- sociates , and stand alone for a great cause ; but the necessity for such ...
... fact that the first is impracticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the other may be even higher . At times a man must cut loose from his as- sociates , and stand alone for a great cause ; but the necessity for such ...
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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.