The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United StatesSaalfield publishing Company, 1902 - 369 pages |
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Page 81
... and caused a delay of months . In the time from May 15th to July 15th , the vacancies increased to 355 , including one chief , three inspectors , eleven cap- T. R. - 6 81 tains and eleven sergeants . The inwardness of the police.
... and caused a delay of months . In the time from May 15th to July 15th , the vacancies increased to 355 , including one chief , three inspectors , eleven cap- T. R. - 6 81 tains and eleven sergeants . The inwardness of the police.
Page 83
... Chief alone should have powers of details , with ultimate responsibilty of the Board . A single - headed Commission is recom- mended , and as the next best thing , a three - headed Commission . It is a curious fact that the best work ...
... Chief alone should have powers of details , with ultimate responsibilty of the Board . A single - headed Commission is recom- mended , and as the next best thing , a three - headed Commission . It is a curious fact that the best work ...
Page 87
... chiefs had been trading . The demor- alization was complete . Two policemen in a dozen were attending to business . The rest were loafing , or were not found at all until the President's message summoned them to headquarters later in ...
... chiefs had been trading . The demor- alization was complete . Two policemen in a dozen were attending to business . The rest were loafing , or were not found at all until the President's message summoned them to headquarters later in ...
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... chief medical officers were present at the conference . The telegrams from the Secretary stating the position of himself and the Surgeon - General were read , and then almost every line and medical officer present expressed his views in ...
... chief medical officers were present at the conference . The telegrams from the Secretary stating the position of himself and the Surgeon - General were read , and then almost every line and medical officer present expressed his views in ...
Page 127
... Chief Executive of the State , and no question arose in association with which he had any duty to perform , that he did not take heartily in hand ; and he strove , as a public officer has seldom striven , to ascertain the views of all ...
... Chief Executive of the State , and no question arose in association with which he had any duty to perform , that he did not take heartily in hand ; and he strove , as a public officer has seldom striven , to ascertain the views of all ...
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Page 160 - 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 does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these' wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 333 - August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 161 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 168 - Let us therefore boldly 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 brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods.
Page 313 - States. .. .The Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil. It is in no wise intended as hostile to any nation in the 0ld World.
Page 310 - The scene is closed, and we are no longer anxious lest misfortune should sully his glory : he has travelled on to the end of his journey, and carried with him an increasing weight of honor : he has deposited it safely, where misfortune cannot tarnish it, where malice cannot blast it.
Page 162 - ... until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question, what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall...
Page 320 - It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under" corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.
Page 161 - ... of lives; we would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars. Moreover, besides saving all the blood and treasure we then lavished, we would have prevented the heart-break of many women, the dissolution of many homes; and we would have spared the country those months of gloom and shame, when it seemed as if our armies marched only to defeat. We could have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife. And if we had thus avoided it, we would have shown that we were weaklings, and...
Page 161 - 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. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.