Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His CareerHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 245 pages |
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... speech which made his utterance at times deliberate and even halting . It became evident very early that Roosevelt was a person sui generis , and not to be judged by the ordinary standards , and very early in our college life I came to ...
... speech which made his utterance at times deliberate and even halting . It became evident very early that Roosevelt was a person sui generis , and not to be judged by the ordinary standards , and very early in our college life I came to ...
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... speech from which older legislators shrink , Mr. Roosevelt , in the last session , moved the Westbrook inquiry , and in the present session he has urged proceedings to vacate the charter of the Man- hattan Elevated Railway Company . He ...
... speech from which older legislators shrink , Mr. Roosevelt , in the last session , moved the Westbrook inquiry , and in the present session he has urged proceedings to vacate the charter of the Man- hattan Elevated Railway Company . He ...
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... speech of 1912 is an attempt to remedy what Roosevelt recognized as an abuse in 1884. It was not , as some of his critics have suggested , the unrea- soning appeal of the demagogue , but the result - of years of reflection . Whether one ...
... speech of 1912 is an attempt to remedy what Roosevelt recognized as an abuse in 1884. It was not , as some of his critics have suggested , the unrea- soning appeal of the demagogue , but the result - of years of reflection . Whether one ...
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... speech made at the Union League Club , February 3 , 1904 , Elihu Root said of the Presi- dent : " You say he is an unsafe man . I tell you he is really the great conservator of property and of rights . " And in support of this asser ...
... speech made at the Union League Club , February 3 , 1904 , Elihu Root said of the Presi- dent : " You say he is an unsafe man . I tell you he is really the great conservator of property and of rights . " And in support of this asser ...
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... speech : — Admiral Sperry , officers and men of the battle fleet : Over a year has passed since you steamed out of this harbor , and over the world's rim , and this morning the hearts of all who saw you thrilled with pride as the hulls ...
... speech : — Admiral Sperry , officers and men of the battle fleet : Over a year has passed since you steamed out of this harbor , and over the world's rim , and this morning the hearts of all who saw you thrilled with pride as the hulls ...
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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.