The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... individual , so it is with the nation . It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history . Thrice happy is the nation that has a glori- ous history . Far better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious ...
... individual , so it is with the nation . It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history . Thrice happy is the nation that has a glori- ous history . Far better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious ...
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... individual ; or else they are wedded to that base spirit of gain and greed which recognizes in commercialism the be - all and end - all of national life , instead of realizing that , though an indispensable element , it is , after all ...
... individual ; or else they are wedded to that base spirit of gain and greed which recognizes in commercialism the be - all and end - all of national life , instead of realizing that , though an indispensable element , it is , after all ...
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... individual ; for the widest freedom of individual initia- tive where possible , and for the wisest con- trol of individual initiative where it is hostile to the welfare of the many . But because we set our own household in order we are ...
... individual ; for the widest freedom of individual initia- tive where possible , and for the wisest con- trol of individual initiative where it is hostile to the welfare of the many . But because we set our own household in order we are ...
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... individual , 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 ...
... individual , 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 ...
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... individual of any group were to be thrown into natural association with another group , the difficulties would be found to disappear so far as he was concerned . Very possibly he would become the ardent champion of the other group ...
... individual of any group were to be thrown into natural association with another group , the difficulties would be found to disappear so far as he was concerned . Very possibly he would become the ardent champion of the other group ...
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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.