Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His CareerHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 245 pages |
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... Question . III . ROOSEVElt and the MONROE DOCTRINE . ― · 43 The Monroe Doctrine Foreign Policy - The Army and Navy - Nobel Prize - Arbitration - Treaties - Preparedness — Merchant Marine — The Tariff - Conservation Relations with ...
... Question . III . ROOSEVElt and the MONROE DOCTRINE . ― · 43 The Monroe Doctrine Foreign Policy - The Army and Navy - Nobel Prize - Arbitration - Treaties - Preparedness — Merchant Marine — The Tariff - Conservation Relations with ...
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... questions with which he dealt, and shall not even refer to others perhaps equally or more important. Incidentally I shall give my reasons for believing that Roosevelt is, and always has been, a person of great simplicity of character ...
... questions with which he dealt, and shall not even refer to others perhaps equally or more important. Incidentally I shall give my reasons for believing that Roosevelt is, and always has been, a person of great simplicity of character ...
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... questions with which he dealt , and shall not even refer to others per- haps equally or more important . Incidentally I shall give my reasons for believing that Roose- velt is , and always has been , a person of great simplicity of ...
... questions with which he dealt , and shall not even refer to others per- haps equally or more important . Incidentally I shall give my reasons for believing that Roose- velt is , and always has been , a person of great simplicity of ...
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... for whatever is honest , wise and progressive . Like many of the younger Republicans , Mr. Roosevelt holds the soundest views upon public questions with the feeling that the Dear Charley , New York Nov 104,81 Уоо Учие ! 8 THEODORE ...
... for whatever is honest , wise and progressive . Like many of the younger Republicans , Mr. Roosevelt holds the soundest views upon public questions with the feeling that the Dear Charley , New York Nov 104,81 Уоо Учие ! 8 THEODORE ...
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... Have been up to my ears in one unending fight to take and keep the Civil Service out of the hands of the politicians ; and I may say without question that during this year the law has been observed in the 18 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... Have been up to my ears in one unending fight to take and keep the Civil Service out of the hands of the politicians ; and I may say without question that during this year the law has been observed in the 18 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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Page 22 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 182 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Page 205 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life...
Page 205 - 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 not victory nor defeat.
Page 11 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 220 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality of strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 82 - I am President of all the people of the United States, without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all. In the employment and dismissal of men in the Government service, I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him...
Page 181 - Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
Page 58 - The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action, applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.
Page 241 - If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity, we shall have done nothing; and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed .of arrogance, and thereby destroy the material well-being of all of us.