The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... hand ; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they ...
... hand ; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they ...
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... hand ? " Peace is a great good ; and doubly harmful , therefore , is the attitude of those who ad- vocate it in terms that would make it synonymous with selfish and cowardly shrinking from warring against the exis- tence of evil . The ...
... hand ? " Peace is a great good ; and doubly harmful , therefore , is the attitude of those who ad- vocate it in terms that would make it synonymous with selfish and cowardly shrinking from warring against the exis- tence of evil . The ...
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... in a mor- bid nature from vice to virtue , also leads to the creation of Tolstoi's " Kreutzer Sonata " on the one hand , and of his unhealthy peace- mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind EXPANSION AND PEACE 27.
... in a mor- bid nature from vice to virtue , also leads to the creation of Tolstoi's " Kreutzer Sonata " on the one hand , and of his unhealthy peace- mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind EXPANSION AND PEACE 27.
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... hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have for- gotten the defeat of the Greeks by the Turks , of the Italians by the Abyssinians , and the ...
... hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have for- gotten the defeat of the Greeks by the Turks , of the Italians by the Abyssinians , and the ...
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... feel the weight of a hostile public opinion even more strongly than the scoundrel who fails . On the other hand , mere beating the air , mere visionary adherence to a nebulous and possibly highly undesirable AMONG REFORMERS 43.
... feel the weight of a hostile public opinion even more strongly than the scoundrel who fails . On the other hand , mere beating the air , mere visionary adherence to a nebulous and possibly highly undesirable AMONG REFORMERS 43.
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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.