The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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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.
Page 98
... practical life , is apt to be valueless to those other men who do wage effective war against the forces of baseness and of evil . From the political standpoint an education that leads you into the ranks of the educated ineffectives is a ...
... practical life , is apt to be valueless to those other men who do wage effective war against the forces of baseness and of evil . From the political standpoint an education that leads you into the ranks of the educated ineffectives is a ...
Page 99
... practical fashion in that struggle , then it will be a benefit to you . Let each of you college men remember in after life that in the fundamentals he is very much like his fellows who have not been to college , and that if he is to ...
... practical fashion in that struggle , then it will be a benefit to you . Let each of you college men remember in after life that in the fundamentals he is very much like his fellows who have not been to college , and that if he is to ...
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