The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as absolutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships 10 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... causes of disaster . Let me illustrate what I mean by the army and the navy . If twenty years ago we had gone to war , we should have found the navy as absolutely unprepared as the army . At that time our ships 10 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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... ships in action , to the daring lieutenants who braved death in the smaller craft , and to the heads of bureaus at Washington who saw that the ships were so commanded , so armed , so equipped , so well engined , as to insure the best ...
... ships in action , to the daring lieutenants who braved death in the smaller craft , and to the heads of bureaus at Washington who saw that the ships were so commanded , so armed , so equipped , so well engined , as to insure the best ...
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... ships , to construct the great guns , and to train the crews ; 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 ...
... ships , to construct the great guns , and to train the crews ; 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 ...
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... ships and cruisers , thereby putting an absolute stop to the building of any new fighting - ships for the navy . If , during the years to come , any disaster should befall our arms , afloat or ashore , and thereby any shame come to the ...
... ships and cruisers , thereby putting an absolute stop to the building of any new fighting - ships for the navy . If , during the years to come , any disaster should befall our arms , afloat or ashore , and thereby any shame come to the ...
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... ships ; but upon the public men who have so lamentably failed in forethought as to refuse to remedy these evils long in advance , and upon the nation that stands behind those public men . So , at the present hour , no small share of the ...
... ships ; but upon the public men who have so lamentably failed in forethought as to refuse to remedy these evils long in advance , and upon the nation that stands behind those public men . So , at the present hour , no small share of the ...
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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.