...disputes. "Citizenship in a Republic," speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 The Strenuous Life I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...

...read to me, alone. That was a once in your life event. He read from Roosevelt's The Strenuous Life: I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...

...faithful to his wife, devoted to his children. And in a famous speech in Chicago he offered his credo: "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life." Unlike many contemporary politicians, he did not hire pollsters and speechwriters or spend time with...

...the Century Company a book titled The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. The title piece begins, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more...

...articulates his key "Americanisms." He acclaims "all that is most American in the American character": "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...

...national virility and greatness" (149). As Roosevelt told a group of Chicago club members in 1899, "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife" ("Strenuous Life" 184). The heralded prosperity of the new century threatened a fatal...

...Theodore Roosevelt. In his famous speech of April 1899, he laid out the principle that united them: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life. The life of toil and effort, of labor gold strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...

...Theodore Roosevelt, who had first used the phrase in an 1899 speech when he was Governor of New York ("I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life...") Reprinting had made the phrase a byword, evoking a dynamic president. Six other composers followed...

...speeches. Entitled "The Strenuous Life", Roosevelt began his address by stating that he intended to promote "the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...

...States. who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere...