Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate BiographyHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 474 pages |
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... things are no longer in the field of debate . They are accepted just as the railroad and the tele- graph are accepted . But each in its time was a novelty , a reform , and to secure its acceptance by the Ameri- can people and its ...
... things are no longer in the field of debate . They are accepted just as the railroad and the tele- graph are accepted . But each in its time was a novelty , a reform , and to secure its acceptance by the Ameri- can people and its ...
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... things they do believe , I have consoled myself by thinking of Uncle Jimmy Bul- loch's perfectly sincere conviction that Gladstone was a man of quite exceptional and nameless in- famy in both public and private life . ' Theodore ...
... things they do believe , I have consoled myself by thinking of Uncle Jimmy Bul- loch's perfectly sincere conviction that Gladstone was a man of quite exceptional and nameless in- famy in both public and private life . ' Theodore ...
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... thing as yesterday . " Chamounix . " I found several specimens to keep and we went on the great glacier called ' Mother of ice ! " " " We went to our cousins school at Waterloo . We had a nice time but met Jeff Davises son and some ...
... thing as yesterday . " Chamounix . " I found several specimens to keep and we went on the great glacier called ' Mother of ice ! " " " We went to our cousins school at Waterloo . We had a nice time but met Jeff Davises son and some ...
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... thing , or only the bundle of eccentricities which he appears . " There was in me then , as there has always been , a mingling of skep- ticism and of deep reverence for those who dealt with reality , and I had not had sufficient oppor ...
... thing , or only the bundle of eccentricities which he appears . " There was in me then , as there has always been , a mingling of skep- ticism and of deep reverence for those who dealt with reality , and I had not had sufficient oppor ...
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... things by halves , and having made up his mind to learn the mechan- ism of politics , he would not neglect any detail . Despite the shyness which ill health caused him in his youth , he was really a good " mixer , ” and , growing to ...
... things by halves , and having made up his mind to learn the mechan- ism of politics , he would not neglect any detail . Despite the shyness which ill health caused him in his youth , he was really a good " mixer , ” and , growing to ...
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Page 380 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection Is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American Industries.
Page 220 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 141 - In a meeting of the general and medical officers called by you at the Palace this morning, we were all, as you know, unanimous in view of what should be done with the army. To keep us here, in the opinion of every officer commanding a division or a brigade, will simply involve the destruction of thousands.
Page 388 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
Page 139 - There could be no more honorable burial than that of these men in a common grave — Indian and cow-boy, miner, packer, and college athlete — the man of unknown ancestry from the lonely Western plains, and the man who carried on his watch the crest of the Stuyvesants and the Fishes...
Page 197 - If we invite foreign powers to a joint ownership, a joint guarantee, of what so vitally concerns us but a little way from our borders, how can we possibly object to similar joint action say in Southern Brazil or Argentina, where our interests are so much less evident? If Germany has the same right that we have in the canal across Central America, why not in the partition of any part of Southern America? To my mind, we should consistently refuse to all European powers the right to control, in any...
Page 133 - Order the squadron, except the Monocacy, to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the event of declaration of war Spain, your duty will be to see that the Spanish squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in Philippine Islands.
Page 360 - Only a very limited amount of the success of life comes to persons possessing genius. The average man who is successful, — the average statesman, the average public servant, the average soldier, who wins what we call great success — is not a genius. He is a man who has merely the ordinary qualities that he shares with his fellows, but who has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.