The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... individual . I ask only that what every self - respect- ing American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American Nation as a whole . Who among you would teach your boys that ease , that peace , is to be the ...
... individual . I ask only that what every self - respect- ing American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American Nation as a whole . Who among you would teach your boys that ease , that peace , is to be the ...
Page 57
... individual , so it is with the nation . It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history . Thrice happy is the nation that has a 1 glorious history . Far better it is to dare THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 57.
... individual , so it is with the nation . It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history . Thrice happy is the nation that has a 1 glorious history . Far better it is to dare THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 57.
Page 63
... individual strength , bravery , and hardihood , and yet in which there has been nothing ap- proaching to national greatness , because those qualities were not supplemented by others just as necessary . With the courage , with the ...
... individual strength , bravery , and hardihood , and yet in which there has been nothing ap- proaching to national greatness , because those qualities were not supplemented by others just as necessary . With the courage , with the ...
Page 68
... individual rights , necessary though this , too , must often be . Your duty is hard , your responsibility great ; but greatest of all is your reward . I do not pity you in the least . On the contrary , I feel respect and admiration for ...
... individual rights , necessary though this , too , must often be . Your duty is hard , your responsibility great ; but greatest of all is your reward . I do not pity you in the least . On the contrary , I feel respect and admiration for ...
Page 84
... individual worth . We accepted as a matter of course that the difference in degree of service rendered ought at least roughly to correspond to the difference in reward . Each did most of the purely personal things for himself . But ...
... individual worth . We accepted as a matter of course that the difference in degree of service rendered ought at least roughly to correspond to the difference in reward . Each did most of the purely personal things for himself . But ...
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