The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt1910 |
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... never considered him before , to take him more seriously than they have ever taken him , to realize that he is altogether the most startling figure who has appeared in the world since Napoleon Bonaparte , a circumstance not without ...
... never considered him before , to take him more seriously than they have ever taken him , to realize that he is altogether the most startling figure who has appeared in the world since Napoleon Bonaparte , a circumstance not without ...
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... never to have spent an hour in idling . The pen or the book have filled his leisure hours . A rapid and omniverous reader , with a quick capacity of taking in the worth and significance of a book and a retentive memory , he has filled ...
... never to have spent an hour in idling . The pen or the book have filled his leisure hours . A rapid and omniverous reader , with a quick capacity of taking in the worth and significance of a book and a retentive memory , he has filled ...
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... never seen his like before and do not quite understand him now . Only in America can he be fully understood , for he is one of ourselves , an American in grain , in its fullest aspect an example of the most modern American- ism . There ...
... never seen his like before and do not quite understand him now . Only in America can he be fully understood , for he is one of ourselves , an American in grain , in its fullest aspect an example of the most modern American- ism . There ...
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... never came in first , I got more good out of the exercise than those who did , because I immensely enjoyed it and never injured myself . " Such was the training of the boy Roosevelt . We have had abun- dant examples of its result in the ...
... never came in first , I got more good out of the exercise than those who did , because I immensely enjoyed it and never injured myself . " Such was the training of the boy Roosevelt . We have had abun- dant examples of its result in the ...
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... Never since has he learned how to cry quarter or to acknowledge in any fight that he has been whipped . There is one story told of him worth repeating , though it may be a college fable . In one of his boxing bouts his antagonist took a ...
... Never since has he learned how to cry quarter or to acknowledge in any fight that he has been whipped . There is one story told of him worth repeating , though it may be a college fable . In one of his boxing bouts his antagonist took a ...
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Page 100 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life...
Page 118 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any nonAmerican power.
Page 117 - The Monroe Doctrine should be the cardinal feature of the foreign policy of all the nations of the two Americas, as it is of the United States.
Page 92 - No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.
Page 119 - It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.
Page 42 - Instantly the great bear turned with a harsh roar of fury and challenge, blowing the bloody foam from his mouth, so that I saw the gleam of his white fangs; and then he charged straight at me, crashing and bounding through the laurel bushes, so that it was hard to aim. I waited...
Page 126 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 128 - ... the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the '20th July, 1899, provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence., or the honor of either of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third Parties.
Page 218 - ... to 700 yards wide, dotted with islets and rocks, the former occupied by fishermen's huts, the latter by sterns and crocodiles basking in the sun — flowing between fine high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan and guinea-fowl rising at our feet.
Page 119 - Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in...