Theodore Roosevelt, an AutobiographyCharles Scribner's sons, 1913 - 597 páginas |
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... brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace , but who love righteousness more than peace . Facing the immense com- plexity of modern social and industrial conditions , there is need to use freely and ...
... brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace , but who love righteousness more than peace . Facing the immense com- plexity of modern social and industrial conditions , there is need to use freely and ...
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... brought the bootjack would itself promptly get into the boots , and clump up and down the room with a delightful feeling of kinship with Jack of the seven - league strides . The punishing incident I have referred to happened when I was ...
... brought the bootjack would itself promptly get into the boots , and clump up and down the room with a delightful feeling of kinship with Jack of the seven - league strides . The punishing incident I have referred to happened when I was ...
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... brought up on them . One of my uncles , Robert Roosevelt , was much struck with them , and took them down from her dictation , publishing them in Harper's , where they fell flat . This was a good many years before a genius arose who in ...
... brought up on them . One of my uncles , Robert Roosevelt , was much struck with them , and took them down from her dictation , publishing them in Harper's , where they fell flat . This was a good many years before a genius arose who in ...
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... brought all these adventures in realistic fashion before me . As long as that seal remained there I haunted the neighborhood of the market day after day . I measured it , and I recall that , not having a tape measure , I had to do my ...
... brought all these adventures in realistic fashion before me . As long as that seal remained there I haunted the neighborhood of the market day after day . I measured it , and I recall that , not having a tape measure , I had to do my ...
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... brought to New York by his parents when he was three or four years old , and , as he expressed it , " raised as a bare- footed boy on First Avenue . " When not eighteen he had enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and taken part in the ...
... brought to New York by his parents when he was three or four years old , and , as he expressed it , " raised as a bare- footed boy on First Avenue . " When not eighteen he had enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and taken part in the ...
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Página 341 - On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.
Página 451 - 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 503 - 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 459 - 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 451 - ... 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 503 - 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.
Página 317 - I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. 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.
Página 461 - In the light of our present situation, the establishment of easy and speedy communication by sea between the Atlantic and the Pacific presents itself not simply as something to be desired, but as an object to be positively and promptly attained. Reasons of convenience have been superseded by reasons of vital necessity, which do not admit of indefinite delays. To such delays the rejection "by Colombia of the...
Página 63 - It was this case which first waked me to a dim and partial understanding of the fact that the courts were not necessarily the best judges of what should be done to better social and industrial conditions.
Página 273 - ... we Republicans hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.