The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 10
... importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into underestimating the strain it will put on our powers . Above all , let us , as we value our own self - respect , face the responsibilities with proper seriousness , courage ...
... importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into underestimating the strain it will put on our powers . Above all , let us , as we value our own self - respect , face the responsibilities with proper seriousness , courage ...
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... important work to be done is to establish the supremacy of our flag . We must put down armed resistance before we can accom- plish anything else , and there should be no parleying , no faltering , in dealing with our foe . As for those ...
... important work to be done is to establish the supremacy of our flag . We must put down armed resistance before we can accom- plish anything else , and there should be no parleying , no faltering , in dealing with our foe . As for those ...
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... important than could have been done by any stationary power . Take the case of France and Algiers . During the early decades of the present century piracy of the most dreadful description was rife on the Medi- terranean , and thousands ...
... important than could have been done by any stationary power . Take the case of France and Algiers . During the early decades of the present century piracy of the most dreadful description was rife on the Medi- terranean , and thousands ...
Page 54
... importance by a squeamish conscience , it is not strange that the very name of conscience should be- come a byword of contempt to cool and shrewd men of business . " What he says of Scotland in the time of King James and King William is ...
... importance by a squeamish conscience , it is not strange that the very name of conscience should be- come a byword of contempt to cool and shrewd men of business . " What he says of Scotland in the time of King James and King William is ...
Page 56
... importance is that something should be ac- complished , and that this something should be worthy of accomplishment . The field is of vast size , and the laborers are always too few . There is not the slightest excuse for one sincere ...
... importance is that something should be ac- complished , and that this something should be worthy of accomplishment . The field is of vast size , and the laborers are always too few . There is not the slightest excuse for one sincere ...
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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.