Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1914 - 615 páginas |
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... turned under in front . I have it yet . He drove long - tailed horses , harnessed loose in light American harness , so that the whole rig had no pos- sible resemblance to anything that would be seen now . My father always excelled in ...
... turned under in front . I have it yet . He drove long - tailed horses , harnessed loose in light American harness , so that the whole rig had no pos- sible resemblance to anything that would be seen now . My father always excelled in ...
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... turned it out to grass it would solemnly hop over the fence and get somewhere where it did not belong . The last trait was what converted it into a hunter . It was a natural jumper , although without any speed . On the hunt in question ...
... turned it out to grass it would solemnly hop over the fence and get somewhere where it did not belong . The last trait was what converted it into a hunter . It was a natural jumper , although without any speed . On the hunt in question ...
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... turned on him at once and accused him of having drunk it , to which he merely responded by asking what I was going to do about it . There did not seem much to do , so I said that we would part company we were only four or five days from ...
... turned on him at once and accused him of having drunk it , to which he merely responded by asking what I was going to do about it . There did not seem much to do , so I said that we would part company we were only four or five days from ...
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... turned out to know very little about wrestling . He could not even take care of himself , not to speak of me . By the end of our second afternoon one of his long ribs had been caved in and two of my short ribs badly damaged , and my ...
... turned out to know very little about wrestling . He could not even take care of himself , not to speak of me . By the end of our second afternoon one of his long ribs had been caved in and two of my short ribs badly damaged , and my ...
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... turned up who was a second - rate prize - fighter , the son of one of my old boxing teachers . For several weeks I had him come round to my rooms in the morning to put on the gloves with me for half an hour . Then he suddenly stopped ...
... turned up who was a second - rate prize - fighter , the son of one of my old boxing teachers . For several weeks I had him come round to my rooms in the morning to put on the gloves with me for half an hour . Then he suddenly stopped ...
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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...