The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-11
ROOSEVELT SAYINGS

The memory or theodore hoose-
welt was celebrated all over the
/, United States on Sunday. The fol
lowing brief extracts from speeches
and writings OF Col. Roosevelt will
be of special interest at this time:
There is homely old adage which
runs: Speak softly and carry
big stick: you will go far" II the
American Nation vii speak softly,
and yet build, and keep at a pitch
Of the highest training a thoroughly
efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine
will 60 far.-From addresses and
messages.
| wish to preach, not the doctrine
of ignoble ease, but the doctrine Of
the strenuous life, the life of toll
and effort, OF labor and strife; to
preach that highest form OF success
which comes, not to the man who
desires mere easy peace, but to the
man who does not shrink from
danger, from hardship, or from bitter
toll, and who out of these wins the
splendid ultimate triumph. From
1.-THE Strenuous Life" 1900.
Il believe In democratic training,
where the multi-millionaire and the
son OF the bricklayer will be in the
same. dog tent, and then have the
best one Of the bunch, whether the
multi.millionaire's son or the brick
layers son.. made the officer.-From
speech in Oyster Bay, July 4, 1916.
| ask that we In this generation
prove ourselves the spiritual heirs
both OF the men who wore the blue
and of the men who wore the gray
But make no appeal to the memory
Of the Copperhead paciflsts who put
peace above duty, who put love OF
case and love OF money-getting before
devotion 10 country. and whose con
victions were too weak to stir to &C
tion their tepid souIs.-From 4
speech In Kansas City, May 30, 1918
When home ties are loosened
when men and women cease to re
gard a worthy family life, with all It's
duties fully performed, and all It's
RESPONSIBILITIES lived up to- las tlie
life Best worth living; then evil days
for the commonwealth are at hand
There are regions In our land, ant
classes Of our population, where The
birth rate has sunk below the dealt
rate. Surelyait shoud need no dem
onstration TO ~ w that willfu
stefiffty Is: from ne standpoint o
the human race. the one SIN foi
which the PEN y, national death
race death Z sin for which there Il
no atonen From sixth annua
messago &C. 8, 1906.
AS empratically disbelieve in see
ing Harvard or any other colleg,
turn out mollycoddles instead of vie
orous men, may add that do no
in. the least object to a sport becaus,
II Is rough,-From a speech at Cam
bridge, Mass, Feb. 20, 1907.
So long as have any influence
left ] shall protest against arbitra
ton between this and any othe
country which will not keep ii
agreements. Arbitration is all wei
enough under favorable conditions
but not otherwise. 1t isn't right t
arbitrate with country when yol
MUM lidJ llldJ COUNTRY VIII not kee
an agreement If 1t comes to a pinch
If you think that the people Of tn
United States want universal peac
arbitration | suggest that you 20 {
California and investigate conditions
| have no use for liars, national. ii
ternational. or those found In privat
life.-From speech In Arlingto
Cemetery, May 81, 1911.
During the last half of the nine
teenth century the leaders of reat
ton in the United States, politica
and financial alike, gradually gre,
to recognize In the judiciary thei
most powerful potential ally. Their
was very little actual corruption O
the bench: on the contrary, on
Judges have been, on the whole, bot
able and upright public servants
standing on level probably highe
than that Of any other civil ser,
ants Of the Government. But thei
whole training and the aioofness G
their position on the bench proven
their having, as a rule, any, res
knowledge OF, or understanding syn
pathy with, the lives'and needs of Ia
ordinary hard,working toi'er--Fror
sketch at Santiago. Chile. No'
% 1913.
The deadening effect on any rae
OF. the adoption of a logical and e,
frama annia1tetfc evofon, could ~ I,