The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... true national greatness . No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity which comes from thrift , from business energy and enterprise , from hard , unsparing effort in the fields of ...
... true national greatness . No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity which comes from thrift , from business energy and enterprise , from hard , unsparing effort in the fields of ...
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... strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dangerous endeavor , that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness . EXPANSION AND PEACE PUBLISHED IN THE " INDEPENDENT , " THE STRENUOUS LIFE 21.
... strife is justified , for it is only through strife , through hard and dangerous endeavor , that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness . EXPANSION AND PEACE PUBLISHED IN THE " INDEPENDENT , " THE STRENUOUS LIFE 21.
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... fair dealing usually amounts to nothing . In our history we have had more trouble from the Indian tribes whom we pampered and petted than from those we wronged ; and this has been true in Siberia , EXPANSION AND PEACE 31.
... fair dealing usually amounts to nothing . In our history we have had more trouble from the Indian tribes whom we pampered and petted than from those we wronged ; and this has been true in Siberia , EXPANSION AND PEACE 31.
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. wronged ; and this has been true in Siberia , Hindustan , and Africa . ' Every expansion of civilization makes for peace . In other words , every expansion of a great civilized power means a ...
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. wronged ; and this has been true in Siberia , Hindustan , and Africa . ' Every expansion of civilization makes for peace . In other words , every expansion of a great civilized power means a ...
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... true of England and the Sudan . The ex- pansion of England throughout the Nile valley has been an incalculable gain for civilization . Any one who reads the writ- ings of the Austrian priests and laymen who were prisoners in the Sudan ...
... true of England and the Sudan . The ex- pansion of England throughout the Nile valley has been an incalculable gain for civilization . Any one who reads the writ- ings of the Austrian priests and laymen who were prisoners in the Sudan ...
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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.