 | 1987 - 516 pages
...seriously because we know the truth of some other words that Teddy Roosevelt spoke. He said: "If we're to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues." Well, this, of course, is even more true of us today. And while... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1978 - 786 pages
...United States had no choice but to play a major part. "We cannot avoid meeting great issues," he said. "All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill." Mr. President, the Panama Canal is a vast, heroic expression of that age-old desire to bridge the divide... | |
 | United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) - 1982 - 862 pages
...seriously because we know the truth of some other words that Teddy Roosevelt spoke. He said: "If we're to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues." Well, this, of course, is even more true of us today. And while... | |
 | Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce - 1924 - 890 pages
...more — 'of our Government.' It is a far cry to this from the declaration of Theodore Roosevelt that 'If we are to be a really great people we must strive...in good faith to play a great part in the world.' " Ku Klux Klan. "If any organization, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether Ku Klux Klan... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them. 827 If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | Gordon Martel - 1994 - 288 pages
...responsibilities of an imperial foreign policy; "If we are to be a really great people." Roosevelt asserted. "we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world." His vision included building an isthmian canal. seizing the strategic bases necessary to decide the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 pages
...demonstrating the kind of great power we wish to be. "We cannot avoid meeting great issues," Roosevelt said. "All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill." The Panama Canal is a vast, heroic expression of that age-old desire to bridge the divide and to bring... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 pages
...it will have to be done by some stronger race, because we will have shown ourselves weaklings. Ibid. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 pages
...strength and manliness and national greatness. Speaking in Chicago in April 1899, he warned Americans that "the nation that has trained itself to a career of...faith to play a great part in the world. . . . We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines."... | |
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... until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question, what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which... 
