 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 244 pages
...present, and nothing helps it more than the consciousness of achievement in the past. THE STRENUOUS LIFE I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 388 pages
...has stood for something definite, and is much in use. In part Mr. Roosevelt spoke as follows : — "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 540 pages
...his speech to the Hamilton Club, in Chicago, in 1899. This was the sentence in which it occurred : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...(1899); " Oliver Cromwell " (1900). ON NATIONAL QUESTIONS SPEECH DELIVERED AT CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 1899 I!N" speaking to you, men of the greatest city of...preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doc' trine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of laboi and strife; to preach that... | |
 | 1906 - 594 pages
...drawn swords cut them down like blades of grass. WHERE ROOSEVELT USED THE PHRASE "THE STRENUOUS LIFE." IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the etrenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form... | |
 | 1906 - 462 pages
...the satisfaction they are giving. The Birmingham Convention of Master House Painters and Decorators. "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease ; but the doctrine of the strenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form... | |
 | 1906 - 474 pages
...delivered by him in Chicago, April 10, 1899, before the Hamilton Club, he used the following sentences : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 9 Strenuous, — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrme of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife; to preach that highest... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. " I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. "I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form... | |
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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who... 
