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Page 4
These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the
Puritans were in the northeast , and more than the Cavaliers were in the south .
Mingled with the descendants of many other races , they nevertheless formed the
...
These Irish representatives of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the
Puritans were in the northeast , and more than the Cavaliers were in the south .
Mingled with the descendants of many other races , they nevertheless formed the
...
Page 5
... was enough to weld together into one people the representatives of these
numerous and widely different races ; and the children of the next generation
became indistinguishable from one another . Long before the first Continental
Congress ...
... was enough to weld together into one people the representatives of these
numerous and widely different races ; and the children of the next generation
became indistinguishable from one another . Long before the first Continental
Congress ...
Page 96
When you get into your average citizen honesty – militant , not merely passive ,
honesty - courage , and common sense , you will find that your representatives in
public life will soon show the same traits ; and when they do , we shall have gone
...
When you get into your average citizen honesty – militant , not merely passive ,
honesty - courage , and common sense , you will find that your representatives in
public life will soon show the same traits ; and when they do , we shall have gone
...
Page 114
sit supinely by and either encourage or tolerate corruption among their
representatives . Each state of the nation , each important city of the Union , has
from time to time to face this question . More than once we have been brought
face to face ...
sit supinely by and either encourage or tolerate corruption among their
representatives . Each state of the nation , each important city of the Union , has
from time to time to face this question . More than once we have been brought
face to face ...
Page 118
Corruption : You cannot afford to tolerate in your ranks the corrupt man , and the
first duty of a constituency should be to see that its representative is not merely
honest in the sense that he cannot be legally shown to be dishonest , but that he
is ...
Corruption : You cannot afford to tolerate in your ranks the corrupt man , and the
first duty of a constituency should be to see that its representative is not merely
honest in the sense that he cannot be legally shown to be dishonest , but that he
is ...
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| Title | The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches Volume 3 of Publications of the Roosevelt Memorial Association Volume 272 of Riverside literature series Issue 3 of Roosevelt memorial association |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | John Ashby Lester |
| Compiled by | Hermann Hagedorn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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