The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 13
... officers and enlisted men of the regular army and navy . There is no body from which the country has less to fear , and none of which it should be prouder , none which it should be more anxious to upbuild . Our army needs complete ...
... officers and enlisted men of the regular army and navy . There is no body from which the country has less to fear , and none of which it should be prouder , none which it should be more anxious to upbuild . Our army needs complete ...
Page 14
... officers should be filled by detail from the line . Above all , the army must be given the chance to exercise in large bodies . Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in com- mand of divisions who ...
... officers should be filled by detail from the line . Above all , the army must be given the chance to exercise in large bodies . Never again should we see , as we saw in the Spanish war , major - generals in com- mand of divisions who ...
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... officers of a department the organization of which has been left utterly inadequate , or upon the admiral with an insufficient number of ships ; but upon the public men who have so lamentably failed in forethought as to refuse to remedy ...
... officers of a department the organization of which has been left utterly inadequate , or upon the admiral with an insufficient number of ships ; but upon the public men who have so lamentably failed in forethought as to refuse to remedy ...
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... officer of the army or the navy , all kins- men , and all accepting their relations as per- fectly natural and simple . This is eminently healthy . This is just as it should be in our republic . It represents the ideal toward which it ...
... officer of the army or the navy , all kins- men , and all accepting their relations as per- fectly natural and simple . This is eminently healthy . This is just as it should be in our republic . It represents the ideal toward which it ...
Page 98
... officer that we got from among the mechanics , motormen , and blacksmiths who came from Dr. Wall's lyceum . Among our other close friends was another Metho- dist preacher , who had once been a reporter , but who had felt stirred by an ...
... officer that we got from among the mechanics , motormen , and blacksmiths who came from Dr. Wall's lyceum . Among our other close friends was another Metho- dist preacher , who had once been a reporter , but who had felt stirred by an ...
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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.