Roosevelt Among the People: Being an Account of the Fourteen Thousand Mile Journey from Ocean to Ocean of Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States. Together Wih the Public Speeches Made by Him During the JourneyL. W. Walter Company, 1910 - 314 pages |
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... spoke of athletic sports , stamped his approval upon them , and dwelt upon their value in success . Intellectual supremacy , he said , was good ; physical prowess desirable , but better than all , and without which none could succeed ...
... spoke of athletic sports , stamped his approval upon them , and dwelt upon their value in success . Intellectual supremacy , he said , was good ; physical prowess desirable , but better than all , and without which none could succeed ...
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... . He bowed again and again , and , when order finally was restored , spoke as follows , his subject being The Monroe Doctrine : ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT CHICAGO , ILLINOIS , APRIL 33 ROOSEVELT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
... . He bowed again and again , and , when order finally was restored , spoke as follows , his subject being The Monroe Doctrine : ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT CHICAGO , ILLINOIS , APRIL 33 ROOSEVELT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
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... say of a man is that he was a good half - back . He spoke of the qualities necessary to good citizenship , saying that we need now the same qualities to work out our salvation in peace as were needed to 56 Chicago to Milwaukee.
... say of a man is that he was a good half - back . He spoke of the qualities necessary to good citizenship , saying that we need now the same qualities to work out our salvation in peace as were needed to 56 Chicago to Milwaukee.
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... spoke on The Trusts , as follows : ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT MIL- WAUKEE , WIS . , APRIL 3 , 1903 - THE TRUSTS . Mr. Toastmaster , Gentlemen : To - day I wish to speak to you on the question of the control and regulation of ...
... spoke on The Trusts , as follows : ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT MIL- WAUKEE , WIS . , APRIL 3 , 1903 - THE TRUSTS . Mr. Toastmaster , Gentlemen : To - day I wish to speak to you on the question of the control and regulation of ...
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... spoke for nearly ten minutes . He urged parents to teach their chil- dren to do and not to dodge . Thus they would learn true manhood and womanhood . At St. Paul a salute by Battery A , of the Min- nesota National Guard , joined with ...
... spoke for nearly ten minutes . He urged parents to teach their chil- dren to do and not to dodge . Thus they would learn true manhood and womanhood . At St. Paul a salute by Battery A , of the Min- nesota National Guard , joined with ...
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Page 37 - It is agreed, however, that none of the immediately foregoing conditions and stipulations in sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this article shall apply to measures which the United States may find it necessary to take for securing by its own forces, the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.
Page 43 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Page 40 - In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any nonAmerican power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the Old World.
Page 124 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with drivingwheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 43 - Berlin, conveyed personally to the President the assurance of the German Emperor that His Majesty's Government had no purpose or intention to make even the smallest acquisition of territory on the South American Continent or the islands adjacent. This voluntary and friendly declaration was afterwards repeated to the Secretary of State, and was received by the President and the people of the United States in the frank and cordial spirit in which it was offered. In the memorandum of the...
Page 124 - In the end an admirable law was passed "to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with drivingwheel brakes.
Page 175 - Pacific, which in that day was known as Louisiana. This immense region was admittedly the territory of a foreign power, of a European kingdom. None of our people had ever laid claim to a foot of it. Its acquisition could in no sense be treated as rounding out any existing claims. When we acquired it we made evident once for all that consciously and of set purpose we had embarked on a career of expansion, that we had taken our place among those daring and hardy nations who risk much with the hope...
Page 48 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 99 - What we really need in this country is to treat the tariff as a business proposition from the standpoint of the interests of the country as a whole, and not from the standpoint of the temporary needs of any political party. It surely ought not to be necessary to dwell upon the extreme unwisdom, from a business standpoint, from the standpoint of national prosperity, of violent and radical changes amounting to the direct upsetting of tariff policies at intervals...
Page 48 - Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.' If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.