The Life of Theodore RooseveltJohn C. Winston Company, 1919 - 464 pages |
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... wanted support from all kinds of people , and he was always willing to use every honorable means to secure support for himself , his party or his political ideals . He was a past master in the art of handling men , and making them do ...
... wanted support from all kinds of people , and he was always willing to use every honorable means to secure support for himself , his party or his political ideals . He was a past master in the art of handling men , and making them do ...
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... wanted to get into the game , and exercise what he regarded as the right of every American , the right to take part , though it may be but a small and humble part , in governing the country . The District Association met in Morton Hall ...
... wanted to get into the game , and exercise what he regarded as the right of every American , the right to take part , though it may be but a small and humble part , in governing the country . The District Association met in Morton Hall ...
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... one of them made the peace sign , with his blanket first , and then , as he rode toward me , with his open hand . I halted him at a fair distance and asked him what he wanted . He exclaimed , ' How ? 76 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... one of them made the peace sign , with his blanket first , and then , as he rode toward me , with his open hand . I halted him at a fair distance and asked him what he wanted . He exclaimed , ' How ? 76 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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William Draper Lewis. what he wanted . He exclaimed , ' How ? Me good Injun , me good Injun , ' and tried to show me the dirty piece of paper on which his agency pass was written . I told him with sincerity that I was glad that he was a ...
William Draper Lewis. what he wanted . He exclaimed , ' How ? Me good Injun , me good Injun , ' and tried to show me the dirty piece of paper on which his agency pass was written . I told him with sincerity that I was glad that he was a ...
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... wanted you to hear what I had to say to that fellow ; not ' - and here his voice rose on the high falsetto wave which is always a sign that he is enjoying an idea while framing it in words- ' not that it would add materially to the sum ...
... wanted you to hear what I had to say to that fellow ; not ' - and here his voice rose on the high falsetto wave which is always a sign that he is enjoying an idea while framing it in words- ' not that it would add materially to the sum ...
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Popular passages
Page 283 - A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Page 172 - President McKinley crowned a life of largest love for his fellowmen, of most earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a death of Christian fortitude ; and both the way in which he lived his life and the way in which, in the supreme hour of trial, he met his death, will remain forever a precious heritage of our people.
Page 234 - On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.
Page 290 - Gifford Pinchot is the man to whom the nation owes most for what has been accomplished as regards the preservation of the natural resources of our country.
Page 339 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Page 239 - Gentlemen, I propose a toast to which there will be no answer and which I ask you to drink in silence, standing. I drink to the welfare and prosperity of the sovereigns and peoples of the two great nations whose representatives have met one another on this ship.
Page 145 - Thinking that the men would all come, I jumped over the wire fence in front of us and started at the double; but, as a matter of fact, the troopers were so excited, what with shooting and being shot, and shouting and cheering, that they did not hear, or did not heed me; and after running about a hundred yards I found I had only five men along with me.
Page 90 - ... friends when they advocated written competitive examinations for promotion. In the police department I found these examinations a serious handicap in the way of getting the best men promoted, and never in any office did I find that the written competitive promotion examination did any good. The reason for a written competitive entrance examination is that it is impossible for the head of the office, or the candidate's prospective immediate superior, himself to know the average candidate or to...
Page 284 - I must govern my action by the laws of the land, which I am sworn to administer, and which differentiate any case in which the Government of the United States is a party from all other cases whatsoever. These laws are enacted for the benefit of the whole people, and can not and must not be construed as permitting discrimination against some of the people.
Page 81 - I waited till he came to a fallen tree, raking him as he topped it with a ball, which entered his chest and went through the cavity of his body, but he neither swerved nor flinched, and at the moment I did not know that I had struck him. He came steadily on, and in another second was almost upon me. I fired for his forehead, but my bullet went low, entering his open mouth, smashing his lower jaw and going into the neck. I leaped to one side almost as I pulled...