The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... share , and more than your share , in making America great , because you neither preach nor practise such a doctrine . You work yourselves , and you bring up your sons to work . If you are rich and are worth your salt , you will teach ...
... share , and more than your share , in making America great , because you neither preach nor practise such a doctrine . You work yourselves , and you bring up your sons to work . If you are rich and are worth your salt , you will teach ...
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... share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our soldiers and sailors has driven the Spanish flag . These are the men who fear the strenuous life , who fear the ...
... share of the world's work , by bringing order out of chaos in the great , fair tropic islands from which the valor of our soldiers and sailors has driven the Spanish flag . These are the men who fear the strenuous life , who fear the ...
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... Navy Department , and strove to cut down the number of men necessary to man our fleets . The men who did these things were one and all working to bring disaster on the country . They have no share in the glory of 12 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... Navy Department , and strove to cut down the number of men necessary to man our fleets . The men who did these things were one and all working to bring disaster on the country . They have no share in the glory of 12 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. country . They have no share in the glory of Manila , in the honor of Santiago . They have no cause to feel proud of the valor of our sea - captains , of the renown of our flag . Their motives may ...
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. country . They have no share in the glory of Manila , in the honor of Santiago . They have no cause to feel proud of the valor of our sea - captains , of the renown of our flag . Their motives may ...
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... share of the responsibility for the blood shed in the Philippines , the blood of our brothers , and the blood of their wild and ignorant foes , lies at the thresholds of those who so long delayed the adoption of the treaty of peace ...
... share of the responsibility for the blood shed in the Philippines , the blood of our brothers , and the blood of their wild and ignorant foes , lies at the thresholds of those who so long delayed the adoption of the treaty of peace ...
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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.