There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will... THE ILLUSTRIOUS LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY - Page 421by MURAT HALSTEAD - 1901Full view - About this book
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - President - 1901 - 550 pages
...nations. All that we can do is to settle whether we shall perform these duties well or ill. "Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how...and carry a big stick — you will go far.' If a man contmually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither... | |
| Cosimo Noto - National health services - 1903 - 396 pages
...superheated Dewey, but afterward, in advising our citizens, said : 'There is a homely old adage which runs, "speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a... | |
| United States. President, Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 798 pages
...hurt other people's feelings upon any question of our foreign policy. Let me quote again my favorite proverb: "Speak softly and carry a big stick ; you will go far." Remember that this country wants peace ; we are honorable, desirous of peace with all the nations of... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 788 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training,... | |
| James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "THERE is a homely old adage which runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a... | |
| James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...peace, one of the noblest achievements of American diplomacy. "THERE is a homely old adage which runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a... | |
| Fabian Franklin - American essays - 1908 - 364 pages
...Power whose interest it may ever happen to be to violate it. There is a homely old adage which runs : " Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training a... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 250 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training,... | |
| Addison Charles Thomas - United States - 1910 - 322 pages
...called to the proof to be unable to make such boasting good. There is a homely old adage which runs : "Speak softly and carry a big stick ; you will go far." If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training,... | |
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