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... statesman who combines with all his serious force a famous sense of humor , " expressed the opinion that his " candor is a tonic , which not only makes plain our im- mediate duty but helps us to do it . In Introduction XXXV.
... statesman who combines with all his serious force a famous sense of humor , " expressed the opinion that his " candor is a tonic , which not only makes plain our im- mediate duty but helps us to do it . In Introduction XXXV.
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... sense on as successful a scale as the most successful lawyer or public man , to train them so that they shall be engineers , merchants — in short , men able to take the lead in all the various functions indispensable in a great modern ...
... sense on as successful a scale as the most successful lawyer or public man , to train them so that they shall be engineers , merchants — in short , men able to take the lead in all the various functions indispensable in a great modern ...
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... sense , and with courage , for those immutable prin- ciples of justice and merciful dealing as between man and man , without which there can never be the slightest growth towards a really fine and high civilization . Citizenship in a ...
... sense , and with courage , for those immutable prin- ciples of justice and merciful dealing as between man and man , without which there can never be the slightest growth towards a really fine and high civilization . Citizenship in a ...
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... sense government by , of , and for the people - represents the most gigantic of all possible social experi- ments , the one fraught with greatest possi- bilities alike for good and for evil . The success of republics like yours and like ...
... sense government by , of , and for the people - represents the most gigantic of all possible social experi- ments , the one fraught with greatest possi- bilities alike for good and for evil . The success of republics like yours and like ...
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... sense of honor . I be- lieve in exercise for the body , always pro- vided that we keep in mind that physical development is a means and not an end . I believe , of course , in giving to all the people a good education . But the ...
... sense of honor . I be- lieve in exercise for the body , always pro- vided that we keep in mind that physical development is a means and not an end . I believe , of course , in giving to all the people a good education . But the ...
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Page 39 - It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
Page 59 - I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men ; but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity.
Page 59 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 59 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 82 - Finally, it would be a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.
Page 43 - But the average man must earn his own livelihood. He should be trained to do so, and he should be trained to feel that he occupies a contemptible position if he does not do so...
Page 249 - ... self-respecting and makes itself respected by others. A noted sportsman and lover of natural history, he has recently, after his arduous labors as Head of the State, been seeking relaxation in distant Africa, where his onslaughts on the wild beasts of the desert have been not less fierce nor less successful than over the many-headed hydra of corruption in his own land. Now, like another Ulysses, on his homeward way he has come to us for a brief interval, after visiting many cities and discoursing...
Page 83 - ... others. The supreme difficulty in connection with developing the peace work of The Hague arises from the lack of any executive power, of any police power, to enforce the decrees of the court. In any community of any size the authority of the courts rests upon actual or potential force ; on the existence of a police, or on the knowledge that the able-bodied men of the country are both ready and willing to see that the decrees of judicial and legislative bodies are put into effect. "In new and...
Page 40 - ... spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Page 76 - The. gold medal which formed part of the prize I shall always keep, and I shall hand it on to my children as a precious heirloom. The sum of money provided as part of the prize by the wise generosity of the illustrious founder of this worldfamous prize system I did not, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, feel at liberty to keep. I think it eminently just and proper that in most cases the recipient of the prize should keep for his own use the prize in its entirety. But in this case, while...