The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 12
... justice has two sides . Be just to those who built up the navy , and , for the sake of the future of the country , keep in mind those who opposed its building up . Read the " Congressional Record . " Find out the senators and ...
... justice has two sides . Be just to those who built up the navy , and , for the sake of the future of the country , keep in mind those who opposed its building up . Read the " Congressional Record . " Find out the senators and ...
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... justice to the natives and serve their own government with honesty and fidelity , but must show the utmost tact and firmness , remembering that , with such people as those with whom we are to deal , weakness is the greatest of crimes ...
... justice to the natives and serve their own government with honesty and fidelity , but must show the utmost tact and firmness , remembering that , with such people as those with whom we are to deal , weakness is the greatest of crimes ...
Page 36
... justice to all . In the pre- liminary negotiations the agents of America and Germany were Mr. Tripp and Baron Sternburg . No difficulty can ever arise be- tween Germany and the United States which will not be settled with satisfaction ...
... justice to all . In the pre- liminary negotiations the agents of America and Germany were Mr. Tripp and Baron Sternburg . No difficulty can ever arise be- tween Germany and the United States which will not be settled with satisfaction ...
Page 37
... justice , and to put into operation a scheme which will work , while scrupulously conserving the honor and interest of all concerned . Nations that expand and nations that do not expand may both ultimately go down , but the one leaves ...
... justice , and to put into operation a scheme which will work , while scrupulously conserving the honor and interest of all concerned . Nations that expand and nations that do not expand may both ultimately go down , but the one leaves ...
Page 41
... full meaning , any more than in a sentence or two it would be possible to treat the question of the necessity for , and the limitations of , proper party loyal- ty , with the thoroughness and justice shown , for 41 III.
... full meaning , any more than in a sentence or two it would be possible to treat the question of the necessity for , and the limitations of , proper party loyal- ty , with the thoroughness and justice shown , for 41 III.
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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.