The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 10
... remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If ...
... remember not to judge any public servant by any one act , and es- pecially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If ...
Page 12
... remember also those who actually did build the ships , the armor , and the guns ; and remember the admirals and captains who handled battle - ship , cruiser , and tor- pedo - boat on the high seas , alone and in squadrons , developing ...
... remember also those who actually did build the ships , the armor , and the guns ; and remember the admirals and captains who handled battle - ship , cruiser , and tor- pedo - boat on the high seas , alone and in squadrons , developing ...
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... remember that the blame will lie upon the men whose names appear upon the roll - calls of Congress on the wrong side of these great questions . On them will lie the burden of any loss of our soldiers and 14 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... remember that the blame will lie upon the men whose names appear upon the roll - calls of Congress on the wrong side of these great questions . On them will lie the burden of any loss of our soldiers and 14 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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... remembering that , with such people as those with whom we are to deal , weakness is the greatest of crimes , and that next to weakness comes lack of consideration for their principles and prejudices . I preach to you , then , my ...
... remembering that , with such people as those with whom we are to deal , weakness is the greatest of crimes , and that next to weakness comes lack of consideration for their principles and prejudices . I preach to you , then , my ...
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... remember that , in the first place , to be good it must be righteous , for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war ; and , in the second place , that it can often be obtained only at the cost of war . Let me take two ...
... remember that , in the first place , to be good it must be righteous , for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war ; and , in the second place , that it can often be obtained only at the cost of war . Let me take two ...
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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.