Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical AmericanE.R. Du Mont, 1901 - 413 pages |
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... civil service law in New York , a measure that has been the sword and shield of all those who since have been engaged in the work of purifying the politics of the State . Following his retirement from the assembly he became chairman of ...
... civil service law in New York , a measure that has been the sword and shield of all those who since have been engaged in the work of purifying the politics of the State . Following his retirement from the assembly he became chairman of ...
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... Civil Service Commissioner under President Harrison and President of the Police Board of New York city from 1895 to 1897 . Upon the election of McKinley he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and carried his activities into ...
... Civil Service Commissioner under President Harrison and President of the Police Board of New York city from 1895 to 1897 . Upon the election of McKinley he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and carried his activities into ...
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... Civil War period , and in later years established the many newsboys ' homes which have been so helpful to a class that needed judicious assist- ance . This was the father of President Roosevelt ; and he was wise enough to send his ...
... Civil War period , and in later years established the many newsboys ' homes which have been so helpful to a class that needed judicious assist- ance . This was the father of President Roosevelt ; and he was wise enough to send his ...
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... Civil War ; but the spirit of this family was not so much for exclusiveness and hauteur as for sterling quality , and a constant preserving of relations with the world . They were members of the Dutch Reformed church , and all the ...
... Civil War ; but the spirit of this family was not so much for exclusiveness and hauteur as for sterling quality , and a constant preserving of relations with the world . They were members of the Dutch Reformed church , and all the ...
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... civil govern- ment . But so thoroughly had he made himself master of his tendencies and desires that he passed exceedingly well in mathematics - that bane of the imaginative scholar . That must have meant adherence to a course of self ...
... civil govern- ment . But so thoroughly had he made himself master of his tendencies and desires that he passed exceedingly well in mathematics - that bane of the imaginative scholar . That must have meant adherence to a course of self ...
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Page 410 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not. " If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed, for revenue, or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets...
Page 409 - Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more.
Page 409 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 317 - 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 148 - The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains...
Page 409 - Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a greater demand for home labor, NEED OF EXPANSION. "The period of exclusiveness is past.
Page 408 - Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise, and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student. Every exposition, great or small, has helped to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and as such instructs the brain and hand of man.
Page 378 - I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
Page 316 - 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.
Page 148 - Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.