 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...  The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses - Page 288by Theodore Roosevelt - 1902 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...rule for all cases. We must ever face the fact of our shifting national needs, of the always changing opportunities that present themselves. But we may...and carry a big stick — you will go far.' If a man contmually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither... | |
 | Cosimo Noto - 1903 - 396 pages
...superheated Dewey, but afterward, in advising our citizens, said : '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... | |
 | United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 512 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. 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,... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 788 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. 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,... | |
 | United States. President, Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 798 pages
...hurt other people's feelings upon any question of our foreign policy. Let me quote again my favorite proverb: "Speak softly and carry a big stick ; you will go far." Remember that this country wants peace ; we are honorable, desirous of peace with all the nations of... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "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... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "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... | |
 | Fabian Franklin - 1908 - 364 pages
...Power whose interest it may ever happen to be to violate it. 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... | |
 | Addison Charles Thomas - 1910 - 322 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. 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,... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1910 - 250 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. 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,... | |
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