Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1913 - 615 páginas |
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... feeling I remember that my mother put on full dress for my birthday dinner . I do not think I gained anything from this particular trip abroad . I cordially hated it , as did my younger brother and sister . Practically all the enjoyment ...
... feeling I remember that my mother put on full dress for my birthday dinner . I do not think I gained anything from this particular trip abroad . I cordially hated it , as did my younger brother and sister . Practically all the enjoyment ...
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... feel that the Germans were really foreigners The affection , the Gemüthlichkeit ( a quality which cannot be exactly expressed by any single English word ) , the ca- pacity for hard work , the sense of duty , the delight in study- ing ...
... feel that the Germans were really foreigners The affection , the Gemüthlichkeit ( a quality which cannot be exactly expressed by any single English word ) , the ca- pacity for hard work , the sense of duty , the delight in study- ing ...
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... feel that their convictions have nothing to do with their argu- ments . I am sorry I did not study elocution in college , but I am exceedingly glad that I did not take part in the type of debate in which stress is laid , not upon ...
... feel that their convictions have nothing to do with their argu- ments . I am sorry I did not study elocution in college , but I am exceedingly glad that I did not take part in the type of debate in which stress is laid , not upon ...
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... feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother . He feels as if that child were not the present he , individually , but an ancestor ; just as much an ancestor as either of his parents . The saying that the child ...
... feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother . He feels as if that child were not the present he , individually , but an ancestor ; just as much an ancestor as either of his parents . The saying that the child ...
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... feel as if I were living in one of Thackeray's novels . - My own experience as regards marksmanship was much the same as my experience as regards horsemanship . There are men whose eye and hand are so quick and so sure that they achieve ...
... feel as if I were living in one of Thackeray's novels . - My own experience as regards marksmanship was much the same as my experience as regards horsemanship . There are men whose eye and hand are so quick and so sure that they achieve ...
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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.