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" 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 201
by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pages
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The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective

Ronald William Dworkin - 1996 - 276 pages
...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...qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.26 Roosevelt made these remarks in support of virtues such as helpfulness and good neighborliness,...
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Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse - 2003 - 440 pages
..."we do not admire the man of timid peace" but rather "the man who embodies victorious effort," one "who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" (13). Roosevelt's nation is not comprised of "weaklings" (18) like Sant Bowden, who was unable to enlist...
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A Brief History of American Sports

Elliott J. Gorn, Warren Goldstein - 2004 - 310 pages
..."you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness . . . We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." Here was the full flowering of bourgeois masculinity for a mature industrial nation : not the wild...
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History

William Safire - 2004 - 1168 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...has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stem strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. . ....
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Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

Karen Ward Mahar - 2006 - 352 pages
...speech before the Hamilton Club of Chicago entitled "The Strenuous Life," in which he celebrated the man "who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" and urged his listeners to "be glad to do a man's work, to dare and endure and to labor."36 Cinematographers...
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Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America

Michele K. Gillespie, Randal L. Hall - 2009 - 240 pages
...Teddy Roosevelt's call for a "strenuous life" for American men and the nation; America needed men with "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." 31 In an effort to attract men to Christianity, Social Gospelers such as Walter Rauschenbusch depicted...
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The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss

Christopher Bergland - 2007 - 406 pages
...desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire...embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbors; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the...
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume 24

1913 - 968 pages
...as England, Canada and the United States if participation in active warfare is necessary to preserve "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." It is undoubtedly true that the highest qualities of manhood can be developed and perpetuated only through...
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The North American Review, Volume 207

1918 - 990 pages
...blood, of 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." (The Strenuous Life.) To-day, in spite of the incredible sufferings of the war-worn, overtaxed world,...
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