"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore RooseveltA.A. Knopf, 1919 - 242 pages |
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... fleet in condition for war . Roosevelt's work as Police Commissioner had made him famous throughout the country , and the nation met with hearty approval President McKinley's appointment of him as Assistant Secretary of [ 85 ] ...
... fleet in condition for war . Roosevelt's work as Police Commissioner had made him famous throughout the country , and the nation met with hearty approval President McKinley's appointment of him as Assistant Secretary of [ 85 ] ...
Page 88
... fleet formation , and they had to be trained to use the new weapons of precision with which the ships were armed . " Not a few of the older officers , kept in the service under our foolish rule of pure seniority promotion , were not ...
... fleet formation , and they had to be trained to use the new weapons of precision with which the ships were armed . " Not a few of the older officers , kept in the service under our foolish rule of pure seniority promotion , were not ...
Page 91
... fleet came to our waters . McKinley remarked that , as the country was still at peace with Spain , to interfere with her fleet would be an act of war . Roosevelt replied that Spain should be made to understand that the sending of her fleet ...
... fleet came to our waters . McKinley remarked that , as the country was still at peace with Spain , to interfere with her fleet would be an act of war . Roosevelt replied that Spain should be made to understand that the sending of her fleet ...
Page 92
... fleet resting largely on his shoulders , Roosevelt toiled to secure from Congress appropriations that would put it in first - class fighting condition . Interesting , in view of our modern naval appropriations , is the following ...
... fleet resting largely on his shoulders , Roosevelt toiled to secure from Congress appropriations that would put it in first - class fighting condition . Interesting , in view of our modern naval appropriations , is the following ...
Page 94
... fleet . It will be God's mercy if she doesn't go down with brave men on her - men who go to war and risk their lives , instead of staying home to sell rotten hulks to the government ! " Finally war came . The battleship Maine on ...
... fleet . It will be God's mercy if she doesn't go down with brave men on her - men who go to war and risk their lives , instead of staying home to sell rotten hulks to the government ! " Finally war came . The battleship Maine on ...
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Page 232 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 193 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 191 - Finally, it would be a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.
Page 192 - Each nation must keep well prepared to defend itself until the establishment of some form of international police power, competent and willing to prevent violence as between nations. As things are now, such power to command peace throughout the world could best be assured by some combination between those great nations which sincerely desire peace and have no thought themselves of committing aggressions.
Page 193 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Page 135 - Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power. Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not prepared to back...
Page 186 - Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
Page 182 - In dealing with both labor and capital, with the questions affecting both corporations and trades unions, there is one matter more important to remember than aught else, and that is the infinite harm done by preachers of mere discontent. These are the men who seek to excite a violent class hatred against all men of wealth.
Page 171 - The action of the President in the Panama matter is not only in the. strictest accordance with the principles of justice and equity, and in line with all the best precedents of our public policy, but it was the only course he could have taken in compliance with our treaty rights and obligations.
Page 80 - York," to use the vernacular of our native city. To show our community of feeling and our grasp of the facts of life, I may mention that we were almost the only men in the Police Department who picked Fitzsimmons as a winner against Corbett.