The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of... American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page xixby Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Michael Kimmel - 2009 - 402 pages
...soldiers and sailors has driven the Spanish flag. . . . I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for...and will win for themselves the domination of the world.65 With that speech, Roosevelt catapulted to the head of a long list of American presidents,... | |
| Gail Bederman - 2008 - 322 pages
...calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor. . . .If we stand idly by ... then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us...face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully.96 American men must embrace their manly mission to be the race which dominates the world.... | |
| 298 pages
...swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they...will win for themselves the domination of the world." ° Such a philosophy threatened to commit the nation to domestic and international adventures which... | |
| Mark Dyreson - 1998 - 290 pages
...idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease where men must win at hazard of their lives and at risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger...and will win for themselves the domination of the world."5 By fusing sport and politics Roosevelt capitalized on the contemporary American convictions... | |
| David Morgan - 1997 - 292 pages
...men must win at hazard of their lives and at risk of all they hold dear, then the stronger and bolder peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world."23 The social order was characterized as intensely competitive, with the male role properly... | |
| Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pages
...their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the holder and stronger peoples will pass us hy and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Let us therefore holdly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness... | |
| Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...only national life which is really worth leading. . . . I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for...face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and... | |
| Linda Grant De Pauw - 2000 - 440 pages
...contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world."1 For him, even the fratricidal Civil War was sublime: "We are all, North and South, incalculably... | |
| David Richard McCann, Barry S. Strauss - 2001 - 420 pages
...predators. "If we shrink," Roosevelt said following the acquisition of Hawaii and the Philippines, "then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us...and will win for themselves the domination of the world."9 The anti-imperialists responded in terms of morality. As the war to subdue Philippine resistance... | |
| Neta Crawford - 2002 - 490 pages
...264-265. 97 Drechsler, "Let Us Die Fighting," p. 235; Bley, Namibia Under German Rule, pp. 263-267. 236 century looms before us big with the fate of many...and will win for themselves the domination of the world.98 The US took Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in the war and set up the administrations... | |
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