 | 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... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...public life high. THE STRENUOUS LIFE. SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB. CHICAGO. ILL., APRIL 10, 1899 GENTLEMEN: In speaking to you, men of the greatest...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... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, was the central figure and chief speaker at the celebration.] GENTLEMEN :—In speaking to you, men of the greatest...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... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...public life high. THE STRENUOUS LIFE. SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, ILL.. APRIL 10, 1899 GENTLEMEN: In speaking to you, men of the greatest...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... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...262 (i) VOL. XII.— A THE STRENUOUS LIFE SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, A^RIL 10, 1899 IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...on "The Strenuous Life," to deliver which he came here from Albany, is printed in full as follows : "In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...work with which his name has since been so closely associated. Mr. Roosevelt spoke as follows : ' ' In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...expressed himself to the same effect. We give the more significant portion of these suggestive remarks.] Gentlemen : In speaking to you, men of the greatest...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... | |
 | 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, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 544 pages
...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " 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... | |
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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 who... 
