 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...  Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen - Page 424by Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 512 pages
...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...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 526 pages
...nothing am I better persuaded than that, as the President said in his Labor Day speech at Syracuse, " Our average fellow-citizen is a sane and healthy man...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind." And that was the gospel of sanity and decency and wholesomeness all rolled into one. Well, these are... | |
 | 1904 - 1070 pages
...nothing am I better persuaded than that, as the President said in his Labor Day speech at Syracuse, " Our average fellow-citizen is a sane and healthy man...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind." And that was the gospel of sanity and decency and wholesomeness all rolled into one. Well, these are... | |
 | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). National committee, 1904-1908 - 1904 - 642 pages
...grown stubborn and bitter. — President RooHevelt at babor Day picnic, Chicago, Sept. 3, 100O. Onr average fellow-citizen Is a sane and healthy man, who believes In decency and luis a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the... | |
 | United States. President, Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 798 pages
...will spurn the leadership of those who seek to excite this ferocious and foolish class antagonism. The average American knows not only that he himself...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1907 - 822 pages
...will spurn the leadership of those who seek to excite this ferocious and foolish class antagonism. The average American knows not only that he himself...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1907 - 930 pages
...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...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of... | |
 | Donald V. Weatherman - 1994 - 150 pages
...The praise Thomas Jefferson had for the virtuous American farmers Roosevelt had for all Americans: "Our average fellow-citizen is a sane and healthy...who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind." This, he believed, was why our democratic future was assured.4 But there were forces of evil lurking... | |
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