We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, 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. American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 201by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pages
...most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile... | |
| 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... | |
| Richard Dennis Teall Hollister - 1918 - 414 pages
...follows : "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 bombshell in the camp of the... | |
| Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile... | |
| Francis Edgar Stanley - 1919 - 252 pages
...deeds of blood and valor which above everything else bring national renown. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." At another time he says: "We despise a nation as we despise a man who submits to insult. What is true... | |
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