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" We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; 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. "
The Technical World Magazine - Page 83
1904
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Morning Exercises for All the Year: A Day Book for Teachers

Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 pages
...Matt. 20 -. 26-27. Sing: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," from Hanson's Gems of Song. 27 PERSEVERANCE It ie hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.—Theodore Roosevelt ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER IT WAS the perseverance of the spider that...
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Tentative Course of Study for United States Indian Schools

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1915 - 384 pages
...Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead ; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. It Is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt. Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For this brave...
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God and War: An Exposition of the Principles Underlying Creative Peace

Daniel Roy Freeman - 1915 - 154 pages
...spinning battlefields from the soul as the spider spins web from her body, can human beings acquire "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." Therefore is war not particularly to be shunned. It is not harmful but helpful to mankind. By no other...
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New Wars for Old: Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force ...

John Haynes Holmes - 1916 - 410 pages
...qualities " ; and, on the other hand, applauds war on the ground that " by war alone can (men) acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." m What, now, is to be said in answer to this plea on behalf of war? Can these considerations, which...
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Ecclesiastes: Or, The Confessions of an Adventurous Soul : a Practical ...

Minos Devine - 1916 - 256 pages
...we despise a man, who submits to insult (says ex-President Roosevelt).1 By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. The warlike nations inherit the earth." Do the warlike nations inherit the earth ? Mr. Roosevelt said...
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General Federation of Women's Clubs Magazine, Volume 15

1916 - 554 pages
...make war impossible. Is there a woman that believes with Roosevelt that "by war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" or that "we must play a great part in the world and especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor,...
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The North American Review, Volume 207

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1918 - 976 pages
...to the world as his firm belief that: " By the right of secession and slavery alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life," had he insistently declared that slavery and secession could be done away with " when the millennium...
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Speech-making

Richard Dennis Teall Hollister - 1918 - 414 pages
...follows : "Ex-President Roosevelt has made this astounding statement : 'By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities, necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.' These words, coming from the lips of a nation's idol have fallen like a bombshell in the camp of the...
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Theories Worth Having: And Other Papers

Francis Edgar Stanley - 1919 - 252 pages
...deeds of blood and 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." At another time he says: "We despise a nation as we despise a man who submits to insult. What is true...
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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
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife...succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. As it is with the individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the...
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