The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page 89
... serve the larger and continuing life of the whole . Therefore it is that the man who is not willing to die , and the woman who is not willing to send her man to die , in a war for a great cause , are not worthy to live . Therefore it is ...
... serve the larger and continuing life of the whole . Therefore it is that the man who is not willing to die , and the woman who is not willing to send her man to die , in a war for a great cause , are not worthy to live . Therefore it is ...
Page 94
... served , to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men , then on our own heads must the blame rest.1 1 Permission to use this excerpt granted by The Harr Wagner Publishing Company , publishers of Theodore Roosevelt's ...
... served , to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men , then on our own heads must the blame rest.1 1 Permission to use this excerpt granted by The Harr Wagner Publishing Company , publishers of Theodore Roosevelt's ...
Page 98
... serves you as an excuse for refusing to mingle with your fellows , for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority . If you go into politics , if you go into a ward ...
... serves you as an excuse for refusing to mingle with your fellows , for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority . If you go into politics , if you go into a ward ...
Page 99
... served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in af- ter life , that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events , then it will prove a curse and not a blessing . If on the other ...
... served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in af- ter life , that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events , then it will prove a curse and not a blessing . If on the other ...
Page 106
... serves as the intermediary for bringing together the powers of corrupt politics and corrupt business . If he is at one end of the social scale , he may through his agents traffic in the most brutal forms of vice and give protec- tion to ...
... serves as the intermediary for bringing together the powers of corrupt politics and corrupt business . If he is at one end of the social scale , he may through his agents traffic in the most brutal forms of vice and give protec- tion to ...
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