![]() ![]() Then he delivered an inspirational and impassioned message that drew huge applause: ![]() Theodore Roosevelt delivering a speech in Yonkers, New York. “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities-all these are marks, not. “The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer,” he said. In addition to touching on his own family history, war, human and property rights, the responsibilities of citizenship, and France’s falling birthrate, Roosevelt railed against cynics who looked down at men who were trying to make the world a better place. At 3 p.m., before a crowd that included “ministers in court dress, army and navy officers in full uniform, nine hundred students, and an audience of two thousand ticket holders,” according to the Edmund Morris biography Colonel Roosevelt, Roosevelt delivered a speech called “ Citizenship in a Republic,” which would come to be known as “The Man in the Arena.” “It’s Not the Critic Who Counts” He stopped in Paris on April 23 and made his way to the Sorbonne, where “fully 25,000 persons packed the streets,” in the words of the newspapers. The former president-who left office in 1909-had spent a year hunting in Central Africa before embarking on a tour of Northern Africa and Europe in 1910, attending events and giving speeches in places like Cairo, Berlin, Naples, and Oxford. How he wished he had spared the innocent! What a contrast was the end of Pericles, the great Athenian statesman! While those about him were commending him for things that others might have done as well as himself, he interrupted them with a rebuke because they took no notice of the greatest and most honourable part of his character-that no Athenian, through his means, ever went into mourning.Over the course of his time in the public eye, Theodore Roosevelt gave a number of moving, influential, highly quotable public addresses-but none of them has the legacy of the speech he delivered in Paris on April 23, 1910, which would become one of the most widely quoted orations of his career. Every moment, visions of corpses covered with blood haunted him. ![]() Bartholomew, was tortured by its horrors during his dying moments. Charles IX, who authorized the massacre of the Huguenots on the night of St. It is terrible to reflect on the remorse of those who, with great powers for good, worked evil. The chances of rescue were small indeed: f Nevertheless they toiled on, and by great care and vigilance made their way to the wreck amid the breakers, and succeeded in rescuing, all the survivors. Yet he let down the boat, and Grace Darling was the first to enter it. Half a mile away there was a light-house, occupied by an old man His wife and a daughter, Grace seeing the men on the wreck, Grace Darling entreated her father to let down a boat, but he declared that on account of the boisterousness of the sea it would be certain death. The fore-part of the vessel, containing nine persons, remained fast. The steamer Forfarshire, while on its voyage from Hull to Dundee, struck on a rock and snapped in two. Grace Darling set an example of heroism in well-doing which has never been surpassed. He knew that he was rushing to certain-death but he considered his own life of little moment if he could only show the way to victory and strike a blow for his, country. That was a noble act of the Swiss patriot who, when his countrymen were unable to break through the solid phalanx of Austrian spearmen, rushed in upon the spears, gathered as an as he could in his arms and plunged them into his breast, thus creating a gap through which the Swiss could enter and win the day. The source of good deeds is self-sacrifice. It is an incentive to them to live purely act uprightly, and deal justly with their fellow-men. The memory of a good deed excites love and gratitude, renews man’s belief in his kind, and inspires others to go and do likewise. The actual performance of a good deed adds to the happiness both of the doer and of those for whom it is done. Good deeds may be done by any one in any walk of life by the soldier in barracks or on the battle-field, by the woman in the home, the nurse in the hospital, the business-man in his office, the, boy at school, or the inventor in the worship. ![]()
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