Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical AmericanE.R. Du Mont, 1901 - 413 pages |
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... Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong. EX LIBRIS MIA OL Po 190 VINNOJIVO UNIV . OF • THEODORE. FRED LOCKLEY RARE WESTERN BOOKS 4227 S. E. Stark St. PORTLAND . ORE . UNIVERSITATIS SICILLVM . CALIFORNIENTS COPYRIGHT 1901 By E. R. DUMONT " E757 B3.
... Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong. EX LIBRIS MIA OL Po 190 VINNOJIVO UNIV . OF • THEODORE. FRED LOCKLEY RARE WESTERN BOOKS 4227 S. E. Stark St. PORTLAND . ORE . UNIVERSITATIS SICILLVM . CALIFORNIENTS COPYRIGHT 1901 By E. R. DUMONT " E757 B3.
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... West , " " The Strenuous Life and other Essays , " " Oliver Cromwell . " A Voluminous Writer . PAGE 92 109 129 CHAPTER VIII.- HOME LIFE AND RELIGIOUS TENDENCIES 153 Romance of His Boyhood . In the Home and Family . " All Children Should ...
... West , " " The Strenuous Life and other Essays , " " Oliver Cromwell . " A Voluminous Writer . PAGE 92 109 129 CHAPTER VIII.- HOME LIFE AND RELIGIOUS TENDENCIES 153 Romance of His Boyhood . In the Home and Family . " All Children Should ...
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... West ; but this generation has been forced to see that they move even faster in the oldest East . Our interests are as great in the Pacific as in the Atlantic , in the Hawaiian Islands as in the West Indies . Merely for the protection ...
... West ; but this generation has been forced to see that they move even faster in the oldest East . Our interests are as great in the Pacific as in the Atlantic , in the Hawaiian Islands as in the West Indies . Merely for the protection ...
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... West . One of his uncles was a commodore in the Confederate navy , and he recently remarked that more than half of the Rough Riders were the sons of men who fought in the army of the South . It would be difficult to find a man so ...
... West . One of his uncles was a commodore in the Confederate navy , and he recently remarked that more than half of the Rough Riders were the sons of men who fought in the army of the South . It would be difficult to find a man so ...
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... western Europe , from repeated reading . But he had resolutely devoted himself to the less attractive studies - being aided , no doubt , by the rigid methods of his teachers . And the mental training so secured must be in large part ...
... western Europe , from repeated reading . But he had resolutely devoted himself to the less attractive studies - being aided , no doubt , by the rigid methods of his teachers . And the mental training so secured must be in large part ...
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Page 410 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not. " If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed, for revenue, or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets...
Page 409 - Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more.
Page 409 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 317 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 148 - The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains...
Page 409 - Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a greater demand for home labor, NEED OF EXPANSION. "The period of exclusiveness is past.
Page 408 - Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise, and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student. Every exposition, great or small, has helped to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and as such instructs the brain and hand of man.
Page 378 - I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
Page 316 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 148 - Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.