The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page 60
... worth doing , then it matters but little in which line that work is done ; the man is a good American citizen . If he does his work in slipshod fashion , then no matter what kind of work it is , he is a poor American citizen.1 1 Speech ...
... worth doing , then it matters but little in which line that work is done ; the man is a good American citizen . If he does his work in slipshod fashion , then no matter what kind of work it is , he is a poor American citizen.1 1 Speech ...
Page 68
... worth doing is easy but in doing it , and when she has done it , there shall come to her the highest and holiest joy known to mankind ; and having done it , she shall have the re- ward prophesied in Scripture ; for her husband and her ...
... worth doing is easy but in doing it , and when she has done it , there shall come to her the highest and holiest joy known to mankind ; and having done it , she shall have the re- ward prophesied in Scripture ; for her husband and her ...
Page 74
... worth having , the success of having played his part honestly and manfully ; of having lived so as to feel at the end he has done his duty ; of having been a good husband , a good father ; of having tried to make the world a little ...
... worth having , the success of having played his part honestly and manfully ; of having lived so as to feel at the end he has done his duty ; of having been a good husband , a good father ; of having tried to make the world a little ...
Page 84
... 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 nobody thought ...
... 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 nobody thought ...
Page 88
... worth now is the service we render . Sacrifice ? Yes , as an incident of service ; but let us think only of the service , not of the sacrifice . There never yet was a service worth rendering that did not entail sac- rifice ; and no man ...
... worth now is the service we render . Sacrifice ? Yes , as an incident of service ; but let us think only of the service , not of the sacrifice . There never yet was a service worth rendering that did not entail sac- rifice ; and no man ...
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