Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1914 - 615 páginas |
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... prevent cruelty to children and cruelty to ani- mals . On Sundays he had a mission class . On his way_to it he used to drop us children at our Sunday - school in Dr. Adams's Presbyterian Church on Madison Square ; I re- member hearing ...
... prevent cruelty to children and cruelty to ani- mals . On Sundays he had a mission class . On his way_to it he used to drop us children at our Sunday - school in Dr. Adams's Presbyterian Church on Madison Square ; I re- member hearing ...
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... prevent cruelty to children and cruelty to ani- mals . On Sundays he had a mission class . On his way to it he used to drop us children at our Sunday - school in Dr. Adams's Presbyterian Church on Madison Square ; I re- member hearing ...
... prevent cruelty to children and cruelty to ani- mals . On Sundays he had a mission class . On his way to it he used to drop us children at our Sunday - school in Dr. Adams's Presbyterian Church on Madison Square ; I re- member hearing ...
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... prevent . my reveling in such tales of adventure as Ballantyne's stories , or Marryat's " Midshipman Easy . " I suppose everybody has kinks in him , and even as a child there were books which I ought to have liked and did not . For in ...
... prevent . my reveling in such tales of adventure as Ballantyne's stories , or Marryat's " Midshipman Easy . " I suppose everybody has kinks in him , and even as a child there were books which I ought to have liked and did not . For in ...
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... prevent my doing any damage whatever in return . The experience taught me what probably no amount of good advice could have taught me . I made up my mind that I must try to learn so that I would not again be put in such a helpless ...
... prevent my doing any damage whatever in return . The experience taught me what probably no amount of good advice could have taught me . I made up my mind that I must try to learn so that I would not again be put in such a helpless ...
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... prevent his charging ; and if the lion is already charging , the man ought at that dis- tance to be able to stop him . But the amount of prowess which warrants a man in relying on his ability to perform this feat does not by any means ...
... prevent his charging ; and if the lion is already charging , the man ought at that dis- tance to be able to stop him . But the amount of prowess which warrants a man in relying on his ability to perform this feat does not by any means ...
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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...