| Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a 'friend; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife...succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. As it is with the individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the... | |
| HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923 - 340 pages
...Union restored, and the mighty American republic placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations. exploration, in historical research — work of the...but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,... | |
| John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife...succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. . . . I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for... | |
| Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 360 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend, but who has also those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. r—THE STRENUOUS LIFE. CHAPTER XIV HIS FRIENDSHIPS Mr. Roosevelt was a person of vividly contrasted... | |
| Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 362 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend, but who has also those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. •• — THE STRENUOUS LIFE. CHAPTER XIV HIS FRIENDSHIPS Mr. Roosevelt was a person of vividly contrasted... | |
| Lee Clark Mitchell - 1986 - 170 pages
...in the blood of our fathers" and called on his own generation to follow their example by embodying "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." The Civil War, he argued, placed "the mighty American republic once more as a helmeted queen among... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...and His Career, p. 72 (1904). Hubbard states that this was a favorite saying of Rockefeller's. 589 It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois, April... | |
| Robin W. Winks - 1993 - 596 pages
...American mood as well. In war alone, said Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), could individuals "acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." We must take these quotations with a sense of the parodox that is inherent in humankind. Bagehot's... | |
| Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pages
...hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from...succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which... | |
| Ronald William Dworkin - 1996 - 276 pages
...or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.25 Roosevelt continues, We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire...qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.26 Roosevelt made these remarks in support of virtues such as helpfulness and good neighborliness,... | |
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