 I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man...  World's Work - Page 226edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | 1922 - 772 pages
...theory. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans upon his hoe. Laugh and the world laughs with you. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The gods are growing old. An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. "I must rescue... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere... | |
 | Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...on April II, 1899, when he delivered his famous address, from which we quote the following: "... I preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. ... I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | 1903 - 172 pages
...the utmost happiness from it may not twine about it roses of fancy and hide the most of its thorns. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character,, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease...strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere... | |
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