 | Daniel Roy Freeman - 1915 - 154 pages
...which, above everything else bring national renown. " His doctrine is summed up in the affirmation, "By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. " These men are not actors on a stage nor characters in a novel. They are of our own flesh and blood.... | |
 | Daniel Roy Freeman - 1915 - 152 pages
...only by spinning battlefields from the soul as the spider spins web from her body, can human beings acquire "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." Therefore is war not particularly to be shunned. It is not harmful but helpful to mankind. By no other... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Minos Devine - 1916 - 256 pages
...We despise a nation, just as we despise a man, who submits to insult (says ex-President Roosevelt).1 By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. The warlike nations inherit the earth." Do the warlike nations inherit the earth ? Mr. Roosevelt said... | |
 | 1916 - 554 pages
...voice in world politics that will make war impossible. Is there a woman that believes with Roosevelt that "by war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life" or that "we must play a great part in the world and especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor,... | |
 | Richard Dennis Teall Hollister - 1918 - 422 pages
...Oratorical Contest in 1912, began as follows : "Ex-President Roosevelt has made this astounding statement : 'By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities,...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.' These words, coming from the lips of a nation's idol have fallen like a bombshell in the camp of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1918 - 976 pages
...especially perform those deeds of blood, of valor, which above everything else bring national renown. * * * By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." (The Strenuous Life.) To-day, in spite of the incredible sufferings of the war-worn, overtaxed world,... | |
 | Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pages
...victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Francis Edgar Stanley - 1919 - 252 pages
...especially perform those deeds of blood and valor which above everything else bring national renown. By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities...necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." At another time he says: "We despise a nation as we despise a man who submits to insult. What is true... | |
 | Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor ; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. 
