Theodore Roosevelt, an AutobiographyCharles Scribner's sons, 1913 - 597 páginas |
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... kind by Mayne Reid , about mammals , illustrated with pictures no more artistic than but quite as thrilling as those in the typical school geography . When my father found how deeply interested I was in this not very accurate volume ...
... kind by Mayne Reid , about mammals , illustrated with pictures no more artistic than but quite as thrilling as those in the typical school geography . When my father found how deeply interested I was in this not very accurate volume ...
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... kind of bookcase in the back hall upstairs . It was the ordinary small boy's collection of curios , quite incongruous and entirely value- less except from the standpoint of the boy himself . My father and mother encouraged me warmly in ...
... kind of bookcase in the back hall upstairs . It was the ordinary small boy's collection of curios , quite incongruous and entirely value- less except from the standpoint of the boy himself . My father and mother encouraged me warmly in ...
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... kind , is generally the very grubbiest of all . An added element in my case was the fact that while in Egypt I suddenly started to grow . As there were no tailors up the Nile , when I got back to Cairo I needed a new outfit . But there ...
... kind , is generally the very grubbiest of all . An added element in my case was the fact that while in Egypt I suddenly started to grow . As there were no tailors up the Nile , when I got back to Cairo I needed a new outfit . But there ...
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... kind and friendly interest in three strange children — all these manifestations of the German character and of German family life made a sub- conscious impression upon me which I did not in the least define at the time , but which is ...
... kind and friendly interest in three strange children — all these manifestations of the German character and of German family life made a sub- conscious impression upon me which I did not in the least define at the time , but which is ...
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... kind of work which Hart Merriam and his assistants in the Biological Survey have carried to such a high degree of perfection as regards North American mammals . In the entirely proper desire to be thorough and to avoid slipshod methods ...
... kind of work which Hart Merriam and his assistants in the Biological Survey have carried to such a high degree of perfection as regards North American mammals . In the entirely proper desire to be thorough and to avoid slipshod methods ...
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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.