The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... interest in what goes on beyond them , sunk in a scrambling commercialism ; heedless of the higher life , the life of aspira- tion , of toil and risk , busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day , until suddenly we ...
... interest in what goes on beyond them , sunk in a scrambling commercialism ; heedless of the higher life , the life of aspira- tion , of toil and risk , busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day , until suddenly we ...
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... interests , and are brought into closer and closer contact , if we are to hold our own in the struggle for naval and commercial supremacy , we must build up our power without our own borders . We must build the isthmian canal , and we ...
... interests , and are brought into closer and closer contact , if we are to hold our own in the struggle for naval and commercial supremacy , we must build up our power without our own borders . We must build the isthmian canal , and we ...
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... interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources . Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of ...
... interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources . Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of ...
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... interest of its own people . Cuba is , in my judgment , entitled ultimately to settle for itself whether it shall be an independent state or an integral por- tion of the mightiest of republics . But until order and stable liberty are ...
... interest of its own people . Cuba is , in my judgment , entitled ultimately to settle for itself whether it shall be an independent state or an integral por- tion of the mightiest of republics . But until order and stable liberty are ...
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... interest of all concerned . Nations that expand and nations that do not expand may both ultimately go down , but the one leaves heirs and a glorious memory , and the other leaves neither . The Roman expanded , and he has left a memory ...
... interest of all concerned . Nations that expand and nations that do not expand may both ultimately go down , but the one leaves heirs and a glorious memory , and the other leaves neither . The Roman expanded , and he has left a memory ...
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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.