Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1914 - 615 páginas |
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... reason that at that time Harvard , and I suppose our other colleges , utterly ignored the possibilities of the faunal naturalist , the outdoor naturalist and observer of nature . They treated biology as purely a science of the ...
... reason that at that time Harvard , and I suppose our other colleges , utterly ignored the possibilities of the faunal naturalist , the outdoor naturalist and observer of nature . They treated biology as purely a science of the ...
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... reason why a man can speak of his childhood and early youth with a sense of detachment . — - Having been a sickly boy , with no natural bodily prow- ess , and having lived much at home , I was at first quite unable to hold my own when ...
... reason why a man can speak of his childhood and early youth with a sense of detachment . — - Having been a sickly boy , with no natural bodily prow- ess , and having lived much at home , I was at first quite unable to hold my own when ...
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... reason why I was alone in the mountains on this occasion was because , for the only time in all my experience , I had a difficulty with my guide . He was a crippled old mountain man , with a profound contempt for " tenderfeet , ' a ...
... reason why I was alone in the mountains on this occasion was because , for the only time in all my experience , I had a difficulty with my guide . He was a crippled old mountain man , with a profound contempt for " tenderfeet , ' a ...
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... reason or another , away from Washington ; but , to make up for this , a goodly number of out - of - town honorary members , so to speak , were present - for instance , Seth Bullock ; Luther Kelly , better known as Yellowstone Kelly in ...
... reason or another , away from Washington ; but , to make up for this , a goodly number of out - of - town honorary members , so to speak , were present - for instance , Seth Bullock ; Luther Kelly , better known as Yellowstone Kelly in ...
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... reasons which led you to establish a physical test for the Army , and to the action you took ( your 100 - mile ride ) to prevent the test being abolished . Doubtless you did not know the following facts : 66 " 1. The first annual navy ...
... reasons which led you to establish a physical test for the Army , and to the action you took ( your 100 - mile ride ) to prevent the test being abolished . Doubtless you did not know the following facts : 66 " 1. The first annual navy ...
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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...