...CENTURY, Theodore Roosevelt reminded the members of a Chicago men's club what their proper role should be: "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...

...successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. 9615 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man When the soul of a man is bo the strenuous life. ROREMNed 192396 1 6 The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem Quarrels in France strengthen...

...the opening of another, the governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt, stated clearly that he wished "to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."'"' In 1900 the whole American art community prepared for an event that was to...

...his personal view of life as physical challenge with his conception of America's role in the world. 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...

...used the signature term "strenuous life" in a speech before Chicago's Hamilton Club on 10 April 1899: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." 2Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937), the son of an antiracist Confederate physician...

...under avalanche zones and becomes unsafe to travel unless the snow is very thin or very stable. 194 / wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. President Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club ( 1899) /•/ Kenosha...

...disputes. "Citizenship in a Republic," speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 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...

...faithful to his wife, devoted to his children. And in a famous speech in Chicago he offered his credo: "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life." Unlike many contemporary politicians, he did not hire pollsters and speechwriters...

...read to me, alone. That was a once in your life event. He read from Roosevelt's 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 the highest form of...

...Whitman in his most vigorous, most prophetic moments—he articulates his key "Americanisms." He acclaims "all that is most American in the American character":...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...