[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...Theodore Roosevelt, who had first used the phrase in an 1899 speech when he was Governor of New York ("I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life...") Reprinting had made the phrase a byword, evoking a dynamic president. Six other composers followed...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...of power and to assert broad national and public interests in the political arena. To them he would "preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the...of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, labor and strife." They must recover the virility and warrior spirit that had belonged to their "fathers,"...

...summarizes Roosevelt's beliefs: I WISH TO PREACH NOT TO THE DOCTRINE OF IGNOBLE EASE BUT THE DOCTRINE OF STRENUOUS LIFE, THE LIFE OF TOIL AND EFFORT, OF LABOR...AND STRIFE; TO PREACH THAT HIGHEST FORM OF SUCCESS THAT COMES, NOT TO THE MAN WHO DESIRES MERE EASE AND PEACE, BUT TO HIM WHO DOES NOT SHRINK FROM DANGER,...

...Square deal was a gambling term TR may have picked up while cowboying out west. Roosevelt did originate "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life," which was part of a sentence he used in an 1899 speech. Several years later, Roosevelt said during...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil,...

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]