The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... POLITICAL FACTOR 65 CIVIC HELPFULNESS CHARACTER AND SUCCESS · THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS IN POLITICS • THE BEST AND THE GOOD PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE THE AMERICAN BOY • MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AND UNPREPARED- NESS ADMIRAL DEWEY ...
... POLITICAL FACTOR 65 CIVIC HELPFULNESS CHARACTER AND SUCCESS · THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS IN POLITICS • THE BEST AND THE GOOD PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE THE AMERICAN BOY • MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AND UNPREPARED- NESS ADMIRAL DEWEY ...
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... politics or in the field of exploration and adventure , he shows he deserves his good fortune . But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period , not of prepara- tion , but of mere enjoyment , even ...
... politics or in the field of exploration and adventure , he shows he deserves his good fortune . But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period , not of prepara- tion , but of mere enjoyment , even ...
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... political parties , the navy was gradually built up , until its material became equal to its splendid personnel , with the result that in the summer of 1898 it leaped to its proper place as one of the most brilliant and formid- able ...
... political parties , the navy was gradually built up , until its material became equal to its splendid personnel , with the result that in the summer of 1898 it leaped to its proper place as one of the most brilliant and formid- able ...
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... politics of a large city , or , for that matter , of the whole country , as to those who would reform the society of a hamlet . There is always danger of being misunder- stood when one writes about such a subject as this , because there ...
... politics of a large city , or , for that matter , of the whole country , as to those who would reform the society of a hamlet . There is always danger of being misunder- stood when one writes about such a subject as this , because there ...
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... politics , who has risen by conscienceless swindling of his neighbors , by deceit and chicanery , by unscrupulous boldness and unscrupulous cunning , stands toward so- ciety as a dangerous wild beast . The mean and cringing admiration ...
... politics , who has risen by conscienceless swindling of his neighbors , by deceit and chicanery , by unscrupulous boldness and unscrupulous cunning , stands toward so- ciety as a dangerous wild beast . The mean and cringing admiration ...
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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.