The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 25
... gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it may lead men to tamper with iniquity , to compromise ...
... gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it may lead men to tamper with iniquity , to compromise ...
Page 37
... give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the Medi- terranean coasts , the Turk wrecked the civi- lization of southeastern Europe , and the Tatar desolated from China to Russia and to Persia , setting back the ...
... give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the Medi- terranean coasts , the Turk wrecked the civi- lization of southeastern Europe , and the Tatar desolated from China to Russia and to Persia , setting back the ...
Page 53
... give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevating , kaleidoscopic character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge of practical affairs give him a peculiar value among historians of ...
... give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevating , kaleidoscopic character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge of practical affairs give him a peculiar value among historians of ...
Page 55
... gives . They do not do practical work , and the extreme folly of their position makes them not infrequently the allies of scoundrels who cynically practise corrup- tion . Too often , indeed , they actually alien- ate from the cause of ...
... gives . They do not do practical work , and the extreme folly of their position makes them not infrequently the allies of scoundrels who cynically practise corrup- tion . Too often , indeed , they actually alien- ate from the cause of ...
Page 95
... give the names of the living , or I could enumerate among my personal acquaintance fifty clergymen and priests , men of every church , of every degree of wealth , each of whom cheerfully and quietly , year in and year out , does his ...
... give the names of the living , or I could enumerate among my personal acquaintance fifty clergymen and priests , men of every church , of every degree of wealth , each of whom cheerfully and quietly , year in and year out , does his ...
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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.