 | Lucia True Ames Mead - 1912 - 314 pages
...which this nation must carry. We do not admire the man of timid peace. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.1 Upon the writer of newspaper headlines and editorials there is a greater moral responsibility... | |
 | Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 pages
...Matt. 20 : 26-27. Sing: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," from New Common-School Song Book. 27 PERSEVERANCE It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER IT WAS the perseverance of the spider that taught... | |
 | Stephen Francis Weston - 1914 - 208 pages
...THEORY OF WAR Ex-President Roosevelt has made this astounding statement, " By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." These words, coming from the lips of a nation's idol, have fallen like a bomb shell in the camp of... | |
 | Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 pages
...Matt. 20 -. 26-27. Sing: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," from Hanson's Gems of Song. 27 PERSEVERANCE It ie hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.—Theodore Roosevelt ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER IT WAS the perseverance of the spider that... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1915 - 384 pages
...Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead ; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. It Is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt. Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For this brave... | |
 | Daniel Roy Freeman - 1915 - 154 pages
...spinning battlefields from the soul as the spider spins web from her body, can human beings acquire "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." Therefore is war not particularly to be shunned. It is not harmful but helpful to mankind. By no other... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1916 - 410 pages
...qualities " ; and, on the other hand, applauds war on the ground that " by war alone can (men) acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." m What, now, is to be said in answer to this plea on behalf of war? Can these considerations, which... | |
 | Minos Devine - 1916 - 256 pages
...we despise a man, who submits to insult (says ex-President Roosevelt).1 By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. The warlike nations inherit the earth." Do the warlike nations inherit the earth ? Mr. Roosevelt said... | |
 | 1916 - 554 pages
...make war impossible. Is there a woman that believes with Roosevelt that "by war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" or that "we must play a great part in the world and especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1918 - 976 pages
...to the world as his firm belief that: " By the right of secession and slavery alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life," had he insistently declared that slavery and secession could be done away with " when the millennium... | |
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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. 
