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There is a line of Browning's that should stand as epitaph for Theodore Roosevelt: "I WAS EVER A FIGHTER." That was the essence of the man, that the keynote of his career. He met everything in life with a challenge. If it was righteous, he fought for it; if it was evil, he hur...
The Progressive party and the Progressive movement were two things. The one was born on a day, lived a stirring, strenuous span of life, suffered its fatal wound, lingered on fo...
7. CHAPTER VII. THE SQUARE DEAL FOR BUSINESSDuring the times of Roosevelt, the American people were profoundly concerned with the trust problem. So was Roosevelt himself. In this important field of the relations between "...
16. CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST FOUR YEARSWhen the Great War broke out in August, 1914, Roosevelt instantly stiffened to attention. He immediately began to read the lessons that were set for the world by the gigantic co...
5. CHAPTER V. FIGHTING AND BREAKFASTING WITH PLATTFrom the New York Police Department Roosevelt was called by President McKinley to Washington in 1897, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy. After a year there--the story of...
9. CHAPTER IX. RECLAMATION AND CONSERVATIONThe first message of President Roosevelt to Congress contained these words: "The forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal questions of the United States." A...
8. CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUARE DEAL FOR LABORIt should go without saying that Roosevelt was vigorously and deeply concerned with the relations between capital and labor, for he was interested in everything that concerned t...
11. CHAPTER XI. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND REVOLUTIONSIt was a favorite conviction of Theodore Roosevelt that neither an individual nor a nation can possess rights which do not carry with them duties. Not long after the Venezuelan...
12. CHAPTER XII. THE TAFT ADMINISTRATIONIn the evening of that election day in 1904 which saw Roosevelt made President in his own right, after three years of the Presidency given him by fate, he issued a brief stateme...
3. CHAPTER III. THE CHAMPION OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORMThe four years after the Cleveland-Blaine campaign were divided into two parts for Roosevelt by another political experience, which also resulted in defeat. He was nominated by...
2. CHAPTER II. IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLYRoosevelt was twice reelected to the Assembly, the second time in 1883, a year when a Republican success was an outstanding exception to the general course of events in the Stat...
15. CHAPTER XV. THE FIGHTING EDGETheodore Roosevelt was a prodigious coiner of phrases. He added scores of them, full of virility, picturesqueness, and flavor to the every-day speech of the American people. The...
10. CHAPTER X. BEING WISE IN TIMEPerhaps the most famous of Roosevelt's epigrammatic sayings is, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." The public, with its instinctive preference for the dramatic over the signi...
14. CHAPTER XIV. THE GLORIOUS FAILUREThe third act in the drama of the Progressive party was filled with the campaign for the Presidency. It was a three-cornered fight. Taft stood for Republican conservatism and cl...
4. CHAPTER IV. HAROUN AL ROOSEVELTIn 1895, at the age of thirty-six, Roosevelt was asked by Mayor Strong of New York City, who had just been elected on an anti-Tammany ticket, to become a member of his Administr...
6. CHAPTER VI. ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENTThere was chance in Theodore Roosevelt's coming into the Presidency as he did, but there was irony as well. An evil chance dropped William McKinley before an assassin's bullet;...
1. CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG FIGHTERThere is a line of Browning's that should stand as epitaph for Theodore Roosevelt: "I WAS EVER A FIGHTER." That was the essence of the man, that the keynote of his career. He me...