Theodore Roosevelt,: An Autobiography ...Macmillan, 1913 - 615 páginas |
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... able to increase the numerator , then I must reduce the denominator . In other words , if I went into a scientific career , I must definitely abandon all thought of the enjoyment that could accompany a money - making career , and must ...
... able to increase the numerator , then I must reduce the denominator . In other words , if I went into a scientific career , I must definitely abandon all thought of the enjoyment that could accompany a money - making career , and must ...
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... 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 justify him in thinking that , for instance , he can crawl after a wounded lion into thick cover . I ...
... 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 justify him in thinking that , for instance , he can crawl after a wounded lion into thick cover . I ...
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... able to get the sight of my rifle on the brain - pan , though I hit him very hard with both the remaining barrels of my magazine Winchester . It was in the days of black powder , and the smoke hung . After my last shot , the first thing ...
... able to get the sight of my rifle on the brain - pan , though I hit him very hard with both the remaining barrels of my magazine Winchester . It was in the days of black powder , and the smoke hung . After my last shot , the first thing ...
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... able to sympathize with the outcry against prize - fighters . The only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended ts commercial development . Outside of this I regard box- ing , whether professional or ...
... able to sympathize with the outcry against prize - fighters . The only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended ts commercial development . Outside of this I regard box- ing , whether professional or ...
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... Of course the men who look on ought to be able to stand up with the gloves , or without them , themselves ; I have scant use for the type f sportsmanship which consists merely in looking on at the 44 THEODORE ROOSEVELT- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
... Of course the men who look on ought to be able to stand up with the gloves , or without them , themselves ; I have scant use for the type f sportsmanship which consists merely in looking on at the 44 THEODORE ROOSEVELT- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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Página 475 - 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 527 - 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 155 - When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities and uses of the word reform.
Página 536 - 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 527 - ... 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 372 - 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 371 - The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to 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 hi the Constitution or imposed by Congress under its constitutional powers.
Página 409 - Gifford Pinchot is the man to whom the nation owes most for what has been accomplished as regards the preservation of the natural resources of our country.
Página 506 - ... from those who are less well off, then it will be fraught with immeasurable harm to the body politic. We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital. The wealthy man who exults because there is a failure of justice in the effort to bring some trust magnate to an account for his misdeeds is as bad as, and no worse than, the so-called labor leader who clamorously strives to excite a foul class feeling on behalf of some other labor leader...
Página 156 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.