The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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Page 38
... serving with an independent command in the Valley , or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan , Pope , and Burnside . Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a lieutenant as Jack- son . He ...
... serving with an independent command in the Valley , or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan , Pope , and Burnside . Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a lieutenant as Jack- son . He ...
Page 59
... serve high ideals , yet to use practical methods . Above all , let us shrink from no strife , moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife ...
... serve high ideals , yet to use practical methods . Above all , let us shrink from no strife , moral or physical , within or without the nation , provided we are certain that the strife is justified , for it is only through strife ...
Page 81
... served as a lieutenant- general or an eighteen - year - old recruit , so long as he was able to serve for six months and did his duty in his appointed place , then he is called Comrade and stands on an exact equality with the other men ...
... served as a lieutenant- general or an eighteen - year - old recruit , so long as he was able to serve for six months and did his duty in his appointed place , then he is called Comrade and stands on an exact equality with the other men ...
Page 85
... serve a dinner or make up a bed or cook or wash clothes ( I have cooked and washed clothes often - but neither wisely nor well ) than for re- fusing to shoe a horse , run a motor , brake a train , sell carpets , manage a bank , or run a ...
... serve a dinner or make up a bed or cook or wash clothes ( I have cooked and washed clothes often - but neither wisely nor well ) than for re- fusing to shoe a horse , run a motor , brake a train , sell carpets , manage a bank , or run a ...
Page 88
... serve it . The test of our worth now is the service we render . Sacrifice ? Yes , as an incident of service ; but let us think only of the service , not of the sacrifice . There never yet was a service worth rendering that did not ...
... serve it . The test of our worth now is the service we render . Sacrifice ? Yes , as an incident of service ; but let us think only of the service , not of the sacrifice . There never yet was a service worth rendering that did not ...
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