The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dangerous endeavor , that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national ...
... moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dangerous endeavor , that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national ...
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... morality in the closing decade of this century has been not a war , but the infamous peace kept by the joint action of the great powers , while Turkey inflicted the last hor- rors of butchery , torture , and outrage upon the men , women ...
... morality in the closing decade of this century has been not a war , but the infamous peace kept by the joint action of the great powers , while Turkey inflicted the last hor- rors of butchery , torture , and outrage upon the men , women ...
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... moral degradation of the novel as of the decadent morality of the philosophy . If Tolstoi's countrymen had acted according to his moral theories they would now be extinct , and savages would have taken their place . Un- just war is a ...
... moral degradation of the novel as of the decadent morality of the philosophy . If Tolstoi's countrymen had acted according to his moral theories they would now be extinct , and savages would have taken their place . Un- just war is a ...
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... moral obligation . The growth of peacefulness between na- tions , however , has been confined strictly to those that are civilized . It can only come when both parties to a possible quarrel feel the same spirit . With a barbarous nation ...
... moral obligation . The growth of peacefulness between na- tions , however , has been confined strictly to those that are civilized . It can only come when both parties to a possible quarrel feel the same spirit . With a barbarous nation ...
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... moral type , or of such in- grained cynicism , that they do not believe in the possibility of making anything better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed ...
... moral type , or of such in- grained cynicism , that they do not believe in the possibility of making anything better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed ...
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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.