The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United StatesSaalfield publishing Company, 1902 - 369 pages |
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... Western ranches , his Northern and Southern ancestry , have exceedingly well equipped him for the position he holds . Naturally , rightfully , the policy of his Administration is more gigantic within and beyond our borders than any ...
... Western ranches , his Northern and Southern ancestry , have exceedingly well equipped him for the position he holds . Naturally , rightfully , the policy of his Administration is more gigantic within and beyond our borders than any ...
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... West , so that we stand in command of the continent that is to be the axis of the evolu- tions of our progressive growth . Four square , and all around , we confront all the winds that come and go on errands with messages , while the ...
... West , so that we stand in command of the continent that is to be the axis of the evolu- tions of our progressive growth . Four square , and all around , we confront all the winds that come and go on errands with messages , while the ...
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... of steamboats in the City of New York , who made a survey of the western rivers , including the Ohio and Mississippi , to ascertain whether steamers that had been moder- ately successful on the Hudson would be suitable to navigate 23.
... of steamboats in the City of New York , who made a survey of the western rivers , including the Ohio and Mississippi , to ascertain whether steamers that had been moder- ately successful on the Hudson would be suitable to navigate 23.
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... western waters . There were many novelties in navigation , to those familiar only with tidal waters , and they were full of dangers ; among them the rise and fall of the rivers , the caving in of the banks of the Mississippi , filling ...
... western waters . There were many novelties in navigation , to those familiar only with tidal waters , and they were full of dangers ; among them the rise and fall of the rivers , the caving in of the banks of the Mississippi , filling ...
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... western steam- boats was pursuing her way to the South . When John Bradbury , a noted English explorer , and his keel boat were near the mouth of the Arkansas they were passed by the steamboat , which had weathered the gale and came ...
... western steam- boats was pursuing her way to the South . When John Bradbury , a noted English explorer , and his keel boat were near the mouth of the Arkansas they were passed by the steamboat , which had weathered the gale and came ...
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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.