Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1913 - 615 páginas |
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... cavalry colonel proved unable to keep his horse at a smart trot for even half a mile , when I visited his post ; a Major - General proved afraid even to let his horse canter , when he went on a ride with us ; and certain other- wise ...
... cavalry colonel proved unable to keep his horse at a smart trot for even half a mile , when I visited his post ; a Major - General proved afraid even to let his horse canter , when he went on a ride with us ; and certain other- wise ...
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... cavalry , " as they were termed , would demand payment to vote as the corporations wished , no matter whether the bill was proper or improper . Sometimes , if the bill was a proper one , the corporation would have the virtue or the ...
... cavalry , " as they were termed , would demand payment to vote as the corporations wished , no matter whether the bill was proper or improper . Sometimes , if the bill was a proper one , the corporation would have the virtue or the ...
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... cavalry , in expectant mood , being in their seats . But Mike Costello , who was in the clerk's room , happened to catch a few words of what was being read . In he rushed , despatched a messenger for me , and began a single - handed ...
... cavalry , in expectant mood , being in their seats . But Mike Costello , who was in the clerk's room , happened to catch a few words of what was being read . In he rushed , despatched a messenger for me , and began a single - handed ...
Página 75
... cavalry contingent , together with all the former friends of the meas- ure , voted against it . Some of us , who in our anger at the methods formerly resorted to for killing the bill had voted for it the previous year , with much heart ...
... cavalry contingent , together with all the former friends of the meas- ure , voted against it . Some of us , who in our anger at the methods formerly resorted to for killing the bill had voted for it the previous year , with much heart ...
Página 75
... cavalry , " as they were termed , would demand payment to vote as the corporations wished , no matter whether the bill was proper or improper . Sometimes , if the bill was a proper one , the corporation would have the virtue or the ...
... cavalry , " as they were termed , would demand payment to vote as the corporations wished , no matter whether the bill was proper or improper . Sometimes , if the bill was a proper one , the corporation would have the virtue or the ...
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Página 291 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 119 - Order the squadron except the Monocacy to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the event of declaration of war Spain, your duty will be to see that the Spanish Squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in Philippine Islands.
Página 238 - My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power...
Página 331 - While the rights of sovereignty of the states occupying this region should always be respected, we shall expect that these rights be exercised in a spirit befitting the occasion and the wants and circumstances that have arisen. Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights, and none of these local governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close...
Página 237 - The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers.
Página 79 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Página 388 - Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Página 337 - Government will declare martial law; and, by virtue of vested constitutional authority, when public order is disturbed, will approve by decree the ratification of the canal treaty as signed; or, if the Government of the United States prefers, will call extra session of the Congress — with new and friendly members — next May to approve the treaty.
Página 331 - ... gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use.
Página 378 - We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.