Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1914 - 615 páginas |
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... Forest Service were better men physically than I was ; but I could ride and walk well enough for us all thoroughly to enjoy it . Often , especially in the winters and early springs , we would arrange for a point to point walk , not ...
... Forest Service were better men physically than I was ; but I could ride and walk well enough for us all thoroughly to enjoy it . Often , especially in the winters and early springs , we would arrange for a point to point walk , not ...
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... Forest Service were better men physically than I was ; but I could ride and walk well enough for us all thoroughly to enjoy it . Often , especially in the winters and early springs , we would arrange for a point to point walk , not ...
... Forest Service were better men physically than I was ; but I could ride and walk well enough for us all thoroughly to enjoy it . Often , especially in the winters and early springs , we would arrange for a point to point walk , not ...
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... forest fires in the Northern woods . But they destroyed large quantities of feed , and we had to stop them where possible . The process we usually followed was to kill a steer , split it in two length- wise , and then have two riders ...
... forest fires in the Northern woods . But they destroyed large quantities of feed , and we had to stop them where possible . The process we usually followed was to kill a steer , split it in two length- wise , and then have two riders ...
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... have said , most of the men of my 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 IN COWBOY LAND 125.
... have said , most of the men of my 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 IN COWBOY LAND 125.
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An Autobiography ... Theodore Roosevelt. Herrig , the forest ranger , for instance , in whose company I shot my biggest mountain ram . After the regiment was disbanded the careers of certain of the men were diversified by odd incidents ...
An Autobiography ... Theodore Roosevelt. Herrig , the forest ranger , for instance , in whose company I shot my biggest mountain ram . After the regiment was disbanded the careers of certain of the men were diversified by odd incidents ...
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Página 257 - 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 287 - 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 329 - 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 230 - My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin.
Página 370 - 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 331 - 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 230 - I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.
Página 329 - ... 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 229 - 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 307 - In the employment and dismissal of men in the Government service, I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him...