Theodore Roosevelt, the CitizenOutlook Company, 1904 - 471 pages |
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... - Riders . Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt as Vice - President Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill The Morning Ride at Sagamore Hill 190 220 240 • 270 300 • FACING Theodore Roosevelt , Jr. · The White House • [ xi ]
... - Riders . Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt as Vice - President Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill The Morning Ride at Sagamore Hill 190 220 240 • 270 300 • FACING Theodore Roosevelt , Jr. · The White House • [ xi ]
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Jacob August Riis. FACING Theodore Roosevelt , Jr. · The White House • Executive Office Theodore Roosevelt at His Desk in the Theodore Roosevelt and His Family at • Oyster Bay · Theodore Roosevelt , Sr. PAGE 324 360 390 420 444 I BOYHOOD ...
Jacob August Riis. FACING Theodore Roosevelt , Jr. · The White House • Executive Office Theodore Roosevelt at His Desk in the Theodore Roosevelt and His Family at • Oyster Bay · Theodore Roosevelt , Sr. PAGE 324 360 390 420 444 I BOYHOOD ...
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... White House for the loss of the ranch ; who camp nightly about forgotten fires with their lost friend , the hunter and ranch- man , Theodore Roosevelt . When the world was young he came among them and straightway took their hearts by ...
... White House for the loss of the ranch ; who camp nightly about forgotten fires with their lost friend , the hunter and ranch- man , Theodore Roosevelt . When the world was young he came among them and straightway took their hearts by ...
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... White House , well disposed , but not ex- actly a sympathetic court of appeals for a pleader like Roosevelt . In fact , he would have removed him within a year or two of his ap- pointment for daring to lay down the law to a Cabinet ...
... White House , well disposed , but not ex- actly a sympathetic court of appeals for a pleader like Roosevelt . In fact , he would have removed him within a year or two of his ap- pointment for daring to lay down the law to a Cabinet ...
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... White House . Mr. Roose- velt respectfully but firmly refused to back down . He was doing his sworn duty in en- forcing the law . That was what he was there for . He urged his reform measures once , twice , three times , then went to ...
... White House . Mr. Roose- velt respectfully but firmly refused to back down . He was doing his sworn duty in en- forcing the law . That was what he was there for . He urged his reform measures once , twice , three times , then went to ...
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Page 380 - No person shall be refused employment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization, and there should be no discriminating against or interference with any employee who is not a member of a labor organization by members of such organization.
Page 399 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 422 - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. He is bound to do all the good possible. Yet he must consider the question of expediency, in order that he may do all the good possible, for otherwise he will do none.
Page 423 - Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing...
Page 424 - The average American knows not only that he himself intends to do about what is right, but that his average fellowcountryman has the same intention and the same power to make his intention effective. He knows, whether he be business man, professional man, farmer, mechanic, employer, or wage-worker, that the welfare of each of these men is bound up with the welfare of all the others; that each is neighbor to the other, is actuated by the same hopes and fears, has fundamentally the same ideals, and...
Page 425 - Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe the rights of others. No man is above the law and no man is below it ; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor." ON IMMIGRATION : " We cannot have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system...
Page 172 - Like so many of the gallant fighters with whom it was later my good fortune to serve, he combined, in a very high degree, the qualities of entire manliness with entire uprightness and cleanliness of character. It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who also possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.
Page 13 - I would teach the young men that he who has not wealth owes his first duty to his family, but he who has means owes his to the State. It is ignoble to go on heaping money on money. I would preach the doctrine of work to all, and to the men of wealth the doctrine of unremunerative work.
Page 416 - The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight...