Theodore Roosevelt, the CitizenOutlook Company, 1904 - 471 pages |
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... as a Speaker and Writer 411 XVIII . Theodore Roosevelt's Father . The Roosevelt Chronology Books by Theodore Roosevelt Index · • 431 451 455 465 • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Roosevelt , President of the • [ x ] CONTENTS.
... as a Speaker and Writer 411 XVIII . Theodore Roosevelt's Father . The Roosevelt Chronology Books by Theodore Roosevelt Index · • 431 451 455 465 • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Roosevelt , President of the • [ x ] CONTENTS.
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... , with the beautiful mother of blessed memory and the father who rode and played with the children , and was that , alas ! rarest of parents , their 死 CONACHIR .. DRAWN BY J. CONACHER chum and companion [ 10 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... , with the beautiful mother of blessed memory and the father who rode and played with the children , and was that , alas ! rarest of parents , their 死 CONACHIR .. DRAWN BY J. CONACHER chum and companion [ 10 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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... father taught them early to love ; their gleeful dashes on horseback , he watchfully leading on , the children scampering after , a merry crew ; of how at his stern sum- mons to breakfast , " Childrén ! " they one and all fell ...
... father taught them early to love ; their gleeful dashes on horseback , he watchfully leading on , the children scampering after , a merry crew ; of how at his stern sum- mons to breakfast , " Childrén ! " they one and all fell ...
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... The while at home his father raised and equipped regiments and sent them to the war , saw to it that they were fed and cared for and that those they left behind did not suffer . I have never been able [ 12 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... The while at home his father raised and equipped regiments and sent them to the war , saw to it that they were fed and cared for and that those they left behind did not suffer . I have never been able [ 12 ] THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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... father , though not rich in the sense of to - day , had money enough to enable them all to live without working if they so chose . That they should not so choose was the constant aim and care of his existence . In his scheme of life the ...
... father , though not rich in the sense of to - day , had money enough to enable them all to live without working if they so chose . That they should not so choose was the constant aim and care of his existence . In his scheme of life the ...
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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...