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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... "
The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States - Page 160
by Murat Halstead - 1902 - 369 pages
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College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of ...

Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 pages
...aims, but the unified understanding which is Insight. XVII THE STRENUOUS LIFE 1 THEODORE ROOSEVELT In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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...
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Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking

Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 pages
...nation the answer to that prayer." 5. Introduction to Roosevelt's Address on "The Strenuous Life": "In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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...
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career

Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 284 pages
...good in our political, business, and social life. The following is typical of much that he said: — 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...
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career

Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 284 pages
...good in our political, business, and social life. The following is typical of much that he said: — 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...
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Oral English and Public Speaking

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 pages
...subject assigned me, "Business and Politics."—Woodrow Wilson, Education and Trade, New York, 1912. 3. In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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...
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Wartime and Patriotic Selections for Recitation and Reading

Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pages
...liberties? — HENRY CLAY. THE STRENUOUS LIFE (From a speech delivered at Chicago, April 10, 1899.) In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American...
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Natural History, Volume 19

1919 - 824 pages
...difficult- issues, than the following so often quoted from The Strenuous Life: "In speaking to you, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that...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 of...
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Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and Prose

Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...STRENUOUS LIFE Extract from a speech on national questions at Chicago, April 10, 1899 THEODORE ROOSEVELT 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...
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High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City, Volume 26

New York (N.Y.). Board of Education - 1944 - 824 pages
...are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, are constitutional. — Marshall. 23. / 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 of...
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Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in ...

Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 pages
...supreme over ignoble timidity and all selfish considerations. THE STRENUOUS LIFE THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...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...
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