The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American NationalismC. Scribner's Sons, 1919 - 204 стор. |
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The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism Theodore Roosevelt Повний перегляд - 1918 |
The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism Theodore Roosevelt Повний перегляд - 1919 |
The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism Theodore Roosevelt Повний перегляд - 1918 |
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Сторінка 1 - ONLY those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Сторінка 185 - He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity.
Сторінка 2 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Сторінка 184 - The result of this examination was to make the impression, that, taking for true all the President states as facts, he falls far short of proving his justification ; and that the President would have gone further with his proof, if it had not been for the small matter that the truth would not permit him.
Сторінка 117 - ... an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds; but the cause shall not fail, for it is the cause of mankind.
Сторінка 39 - We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes, and we should tolerate no allegiance to any other flag, whether a foreign flag, or the red flag or the black flag. We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.
Сторінка 185 - ... than the Presidency itself is by some thought to be. An honest laborer digs coal at about seventy cents a day, while the President digs abstractions at about seventy dollars a day. The coal is clearly worth more than the abstractions, and yet what a monstrous inequality in the prices ! Does the President, for this reason, propose to abolish the Presidency?
Сторінка 1 - Both life and death are parts Only those are fit to live who do not ACADEMY NOTES OF ARTS AND LETTERS 13 of the same Great Adventure. Never yet was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put his personal safety first. Never yet was a country worth living in unless its sons and daughters were of that stern stuff which bade them die for it at need ; and never yet was a country worth dying for unless its sons and daughters thought of life not as something concerned only with the selfish...
Сторінка 117 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.' If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity, we shall have done nothing; and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed of arrogance, and thereby destroy the material well-being...
Сторінка 117 - If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity, we shall have done nothing; and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed of arrogance, and thereby destroy the material well-being of all of us. To turn this Government either into government by a plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repeat on a larger scale the lamentable failures of the world that is dead. We stand against all tyranny, by the few...