 | 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...great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every selfrespecting American demands from himself and from his sons... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to... | |
 | Ronald William Dworkin - 1996 - 276 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, 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 the man who embodies... | |
 | Peter G. Filene - 1998 - 382 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph."3 This was familiar rhetoric. Americans throughout the nineteenth century had talked about... | |
 | Jonathan Freedman - 1998 - 284 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.5 On almost every public occasion Roosevelt would return to making connections between the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. . . . As it is with the individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil and who...these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to... | |
 | Michael T. Leibig - 2003 - 130 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these winds the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs Children... | |
 | Brady Harrison - 2004 - 260 pages
...success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who...out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." Following in the tradition of imperial eloquence—once again, the great work of empire-building demands... | |
 | Paul Grondahl - 2004 - 500 pages
...the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. 90 Among the thousands of addresses and speeches Roosevelt made, it was perhaps his most famous and... | |
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... 
