 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...Exertion There's no taking trout with dry breeches. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish author I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president Existence A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"... | |
 | Peter Baida - 1990 - 372 pages
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 | Mari J. Matsuda - 1992 - 364 pages
...in the quotation from Theodore Roosevelt that was engraved over the door of Roosevelt High School: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." As Alana engaged in the "strenuous life," she often told her brother Livingston that he would never... | |
 | Nathan Miller - 1994 - 644 pages
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 | Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 pages
...demands, in the United States, in Germany, and elsewhere. "I wish to preach," said Theodore Roosevelt, "not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife." In a book on the soul and body of the child, one French writer, Dr. Maurice de Fleury, warned that... | |
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life... 
