 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1908 - 325 pages
...powerful statement of the dionysian philosophy ever made by anyone. " I wish to preach," it begins, " not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...of toil and effort, of labor and strife: to preach the highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | 1909 - 116 pages
...If "that draft" does not arrive, Don't you fret ; you will survive ; Keep hustling. GEOEGE LOARTS. I WISH to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | 1909 - 116 pages
...If "that draft" does not arrive, Don't you fret; you will survive; Keep hustling. GEORGE I.OAllTS. I WISH to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | 1910
...Hamilton Club of Chicago in 1899. Here is the sentence which contained his dogma of the "strenuous life" : "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...strife ; to preach that highest form of success which conies, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,... | |
 | Albert Van der Naillen - 1912 - 117 pages
...higher one, leads directly to good citizenship in the other, or in the one below. Mr. Roosevelt writes: "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease...strife; to preach that highest form of success which conies, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1913 - 420 pages
...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,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. — ROOSEVELT The thought here is continuous and incomplete until we come to the phrase " the doctrine... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1454 pages
...is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. Speech. Springfield (Illinois). July 4, 1903. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Speech be/ore the Hamilton Club, Chicago. April 10, 1899. WILLIAM WATSON. 1858Hate and mistrust are... | |
 | 1919
...you, 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 toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success which comes ... to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship,... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1920 - 365 pages
...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the Ameri5 can character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease...easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from 10 danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.... | |
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life... 
