The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... the years of strife endured ; for in the end the slave was freed , the Union restored , and the mighty American republic placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations . We of this generation do not have to face a THE STRENUOUS LIFE 5.
... the years of strife endured ; for in the end the slave was freed , the Union restored , and the mighty American republic placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations . We of this generation do not have to face a THE STRENUOUS LIFE 5.
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... a brave and high- spirited people ; and , once in , whether failure or success should crown our banners . So it is now . We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in Hawaii , Cuba , Porto Rico 6 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... a brave and high- spirited people ; and , once in , whether failure or success should crown our banners . So it is now . We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in Hawaii , Cuba , Porto Rico 6 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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... once by utter chaos in the wretched islands themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings , unable to carry to successful completion the labors that great ...
... once by utter chaos in the wretched islands themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings , unable to carry to successful completion the labors that great ...
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... once firm and beneficent . We have driven Spanish tyranny from the islands . If we now let it be replaced by savage anarchy , our work has been for harm and not for good . I have scant patience with those who fear to undertake the task ...
... once firm and beneficent . We have driven Spanish tyranny from the islands . If we now let it be replaced by savage anarchy , our work has been for harm and not for good . I have scant patience with those who fear to undertake the task ...
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... once we have put down armed re- sistance , when once our rule is acknow- ledged , then an even more difficult task will begin , for then we must see to it that the islands are administered with absolute hon . esty and with good judgment ...
... once we have put down armed re- sistance , when once our rule is acknow- ledged , then an even more difficult task will begin , for then we must see to it that the islands are administered with absolute hon . esty and with good judgment ...
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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.