The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... practical methods . 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 ...
... practical methods . 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 ...
Page 72
... practical life is not the type of ideal that you wish to hold up and follow . Be practical as well as generous in your ideals . Keep your eyes on the stars , but remember to keep your feet on the ground . Be truthful ; a lie implies ...
... practical life is not the type of ideal that you wish to hold up and follow . Be practical as well as generous in your ideals . Keep your eyes on the stars , but remember to keep your feet on the ground . Be truthful ; a lie implies ...
Page 73
... practical power to realize them in actual life . You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak . That is not so . Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest . You have the gulf of ...
... practical power to realize them in actual life . You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak . That is not so . Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest . You have the gulf of ...
Page 88
... practical lines of effort . With all my heart I believe that our people have in them the same patriotism , the same nobility of soul to which Washington and Lincoln were able to appeal . I ask that the appeal be made , the appeal for ...
... practical lines of effort . With all my heart I believe that our people have in them the same patriotism , the same nobility of soul to which Washington and Lincoln were able to appeal . I ask that the appeal be made , the appeal for ...
Page 97
... ficult it was to get even moderately good results out of any theory when you tried to apply it to the hard facts of actual life . The judgment on practical affairs , polit- ical and social , of the men who keep aloof GOOD CITIZENSHIP 97.
... ficult it was to get even moderately good results out of any theory when you tried to apply it to the hard facts of actual life . The judgment on practical affairs , polit- ical and social , of the men who keep aloof GOOD CITIZENSHIP 97.
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