The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page 61
... corruption or betrayal of trust , or demagogy or violence , or brutality , not that he is shocked and horri- fied and would like to go home ; but I want to have him feel the determination to put the wrong - doer down , to make the man ...
... corruption or betrayal of trust , or demagogy or violence , or brutality , not that he is shocked and horri- fied and would like to go home ; but I want to have him feel the determination to put the wrong - doer down , to make the man ...
Page 94
... corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men , then on our own heads must the blame rest.1 1 Permission to use this excerpt granted by The Harr Wagner Publishing Company , publishers of Theodore Roosevelt's Realizable Ideals . III In a ...
... corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men , then on our own heads must the blame rest.1 1 Permission to use this excerpt granted by The Harr Wagner Publishing Company , publishers of Theodore Roosevelt's Realizable Ideals . III In a ...
Page 106
... corrupt means . Some of the worst and most powerful bosses in our political history either held no public office or ... corrupt politics and corrupt business . If he is at one end of the social scale , he may through his agents traffic ...
... corrupt means . Some of the worst and most powerful bosses in our political history either held no public office or ... corrupt politics and corrupt business . If he is at one end of the social scale , he may through his agents traffic ...
Page 108
... corrupt man , a man whose action in blackmailing and protecting vice is of far - reaching damage to his constitu- ents . But these constituents are for the most part men and women who struggle hard against poverty and with whom the ...
... corrupt man , a man whose action in blackmailing and protecting vice is of far - reaching damage to his constitu- ents . But these constituents are for the most part men and women who struggle hard against poverty and with whom the ...
Page 112
... corruption ; lawless vio- lence , which we most often have to face from among the people who have least of the world's goods ; and corrup- tion , which we most often have to face from among the people that have most of the world's goods ...
... corruption ; lawless vio- lence , which we most often have to face from among the people who have least of the world's goods ; and corrup- tion , which we most often have to face from among the people that have most of the world's goods ...
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