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" The timid man, the lazy man the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man, and the man of dull mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty lift that thrills "stern... "
Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical ... - Page 148
by Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 413 pages
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pages
...danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the overeivilized man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man and the man...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright. The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from seeing us build a navy and army adequate to our needs; shrink from seeing us do our share...
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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

Alexander DeConde, Richard Dean Burns, Fredrik Logevall - 2001
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Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and ...

Neta Crawford - 2002 - 490 pages
...problems a dark and shameful page in our history." It was an identity argument: real men are imperialists: The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties. . . 1 preach to you then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the...
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Master AP Us History

John W. Crum - 2002 - 390 pages
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Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-century America

Ronald T. Takaki - 704 pages
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Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire

Sarah Watts - 2003 - 301 pages
...especially for the "timid man, the lazy man . . . who has lost the great fighting masterful virtues . . . the man of dull mind whose soul is incapable of feeling...thrills 'stern men with empires in their brains.' "3 More aggressively minded men like Roosevelt believed that war's skills — stalking, targeting,...
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Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire

Sarah Watts - 2003 - 301 pages
...especially for the "timid man, the lazy man . . . who has lost the great fighting masterful virtues . . . the man of dull mind whose soul is incapable of feeling...lift that thrills 'stern men with empires in their brains.'"3 More aggressively minded men like Roosevelt believed that war's skills — stalking, targeting,...
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Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature

Brady Harrison - 2004 - 260 pages
...empire-building demands equally formidable prose—he communicates his fervor for power, for masculine assertion: The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts...lift that thrills "stern men with empires in their brains"—all these, of course, shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties; shrink from...
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Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S ...

William M. Morgan - 2004 - 268 pages
...can exist only when the men . . . who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives" and are capable "of feeling the mighty lift that thrills 'stern men with empires in their brains.'" By contrast, the "men who fear the strenuous life . . . [also] fear the only national life which is...
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