The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... worth- less French " squawman , " with an intelligent Indian wife , whose baby was but a few weeks old . From this point onwards , when they began to travel west instead of north , the explorers were in a country where no white man had ...
... worth- less French " squawman , " with an intelligent Indian wife , whose baby was but a few weeks old . From this point onwards , when they began to travel west instead of north , the explorers were in a country where no white man had ...
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... worth in the formation of national character . The old iron days have gone , the days when the weak- ling died as the penalty of inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings . We live in softer times . Let us ...
... worth in the formation of national character . The old iron days have gone , the days when the weak- ling died as the penalty of inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings . We live in softer times . Let us ...
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... When two lessons are both indispensable , it seems hardly worth while to dwell more on one than on the other . Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of Valley Forge even than that of THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 53.
... When two lessons are both indispensable , it seems hardly worth while to dwell more on one than on the other . Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of Valley Forge even than that of THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 53.
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... worth your salt , you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure , it is not to be spent in idleness ; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who pos- sess it , being free from the necessity of working for their ...
... worth your salt , you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure , it is not to be spent in idleness ; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who pos- sess it , being free from the necessity of working for their ...
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... worth doing . I admire him . I pity the creature who does n't work , at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being . The law of worthy work well done is the law of successful American life . I believe in play , too ...
... worth doing . I admire him . I pity the creature who does n't work , at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being . The law of worthy work well done is the law of successful American life . I believe in play , too ...
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