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The details of his rise to leadership would suggest a regular course of culture for
public duty , and illustrates the degree with which the will of man has its way ,
straight through the entanglement of accidents , if he is indomitable .
The details of his rise to leadership would suggest a regular course of culture for
public duty , and illustrates the degree with which the will of man has its way ,
straight through the entanglement of accidents , if he is indomitable .
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He landed in his own native land , heard the demand of duty clear as a bugle ' s
call and responded wherever he could reach a battlefield . It was to go into
politics , to enter the primary meetings , to fight the beasts in the slums and the
slimy ...
He landed in his own native land , heard the demand of duty clear as a bugle ' s
call and responded wherever he could reach a battlefield . It was to go into
politics , to enter the primary meetings , to fight the beasts in the slums and the
slimy ...
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Roosevelt felt it was a duty he owed to himself to do what he thought was right
and did it thoroughly . No one who heard him but believed that he would always
be found fighting against " the wealthy criminal class , ” as he put it . Naturally ...
Roosevelt felt it was a duty he owed to himself to do what he thought was right
and did it thoroughly . No one who heard him but believed that he would always
be found fighting against " the wealthy criminal class , ” as he put it . Naturally ...
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I stand here , Mr . President , honored , though it were alone , with the duty of
presenting his name to this Convention . But it is not I , it is not the State nor the
delegates whom I here represent , who present that name to you . It is presented
by ...
I stand here , Mr . President , honored , though it were alone , with the duty of
presenting his name to this Convention . But it is not I , it is not the State nor the
delegates whom I here represent , who present that name to you . It is presented
by ...
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He thought General Sherman could have the matter put to him by the Convention
in such a way that he would be obliged to feel that it was his duty to accept the
Presidency , if he was elected , and that nothing more was wanted . One difficulty
...
He thought General Sherman could have the matter put to him by the Convention
in such a way that he would be obliged to feel that it was his duty to accept the
Presidency , if he was elected , and that nothing more was wanted . One difficulty
...
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Page 160 - 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 does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these' wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 333 - August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 161 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 168 - Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully ; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
Page 313 - States. .. .The Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the 0ld World.
Page 310 - The scene is closed, and we are no longer anxious lest misfortune should sully his glory : he has travelled on to the end of his journey, and carried with him an increasing weight of honor : he has deposited it safely, where misfortune cannot tarnish it, where malice cannot blast it.
Page 162 - ... until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question, what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall...
Page 320 - It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under" corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.
Page 161 - ... of lives; we would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars. Moreover, besides saving all the blood and treasure we then lavished, we would have prevented the heart-break of many women, the dissolution of many homes; and we would have spared the country those months of gloom and shame, when it seemed as if our armies marched only to defeat. We could have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife. And if we had thus avoided it, we would have shown that we were weaklings, and...
Page 161 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States |
| Author | Murat Halstead |
| Publisher | Saalfield publishing Company, 1902 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0722288778, 9780722288771 |
| Length | 369 pages |
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