Theodore Roosevelt, an AutobiographyCharles Scribner's sons, 1913 - 597 páginas |
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... regiment of horse riflemen from among the ranchmen and cowboys of the plains . When Ambassador , the poor , gallant , tender- hearted fellow was dying of a slow and painful disease , so that he could not play with the rest of us , but ...
... regiment of horse riflemen from among the ranchmen and cowboys of the plains . When Ambassador , the poor , gallant , tender- hearted fellow was dying of a slow and painful disease , so that he could not play with the rest of us , but ...
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... regiment , and afterwards held my commission as Postmaster at Dallas . At the stockmen's meeting in Miles City , in addition to the big stockmen , there were always hundreds of cowboys galloping up and down the wide dusty streets at ...
... regiment , and afterwards held my commission as Postmaster at Dallas . At the stockmen's meeting in Miles City , in addition to the big stockmen , there were always hundreds of cowboys galloping up and down the wide dusty streets at ...
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... regiment might have walked out of Wister's stories or Remington's pictures . There were bad characters in the Western country at that time , of course , and under the conditions of life they were probably more dangerous than they would ...
... regiment might have walked out of Wister's stories or Remington's pictures . There were bad characters in the Western country at that time , of course , and under the conditions of life they were probably more dangerous than they would ...
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... regiment were just such men as those I knew in the ranch country ; indeed , some of my ranch friends were in the regiment - Fred Herrig , the forest ranger , for instance , in whose company I shot my biggest mountain ram . After the ...
... regiment were just such men as those I knew in the ranch country ; indeed , some of my ranch friends were in the regiment - Fred Herrig , the forest ranger , for instance , in whose company I shot my biggest mountain ram . After the ...
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... regiment , Major Llewellyn , who was Federal District Attorney under me in New Mexico , wrote me a letter filled , as his letters usually were , with bits of interesting gossip about the com- rades . It ran in part as follows : " Since ...
... regiment , Major Llewellyn , who was Federal District Attorney under me in New Mexico , wrote me a letter filled , as his letters usually were , with bits of interesting gossip about the com- rades . It ran in part as follows : " Since ...
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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.