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" the hard, energetic, practical men who do the rough pioneer work of civilization in barbarous lands, are not prone to false sentimentality." " The most ultimately righteous of all wars," he explained, " is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also... "
Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind - Page 143
by Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1989 - 265 pages
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The Winning of the West: The founding of the trans-Alleghany commonwealths ...

Theodore Roosevelt - Kentucky - 1894 - 368 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of today. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at home. Often these stay-at-homes are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Winning of the West: The founding of the trans-Alleghany commonwealths ...

Theodore Roosevelt - Kentucky - 1894 - 370 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of today. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at tome. Often these stay-at-homes are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Winning of the West, Volume 3

Theodore Roosevelt - Louisiana - 1894 - 362 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of today. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at home. Often these stay-at-homes are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Winning of the West, Volume 3

Theodore Roosevelt - Southwest, Old - 1894 - 366 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of today. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at home. Often these stay-at-honies are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the West

Theodore Roosevelt - Hunting - 1896 - 424 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of to-day. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at home. Often these stay-at-homes are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Book Buyer, Volume 18

American literature - 1899 - 556 pages
...fertility and freedom. His attitude towards the Indians' rights is summed up briefly in his sentence: "The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages." Had that sentence been placed at the beginning of the work it might have saved the reiteration that...
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The Iowa Historical Record, Volumes 16-18

Frederick Lloyd - Iowa - 1902 - 700 pages
...brotherhood was working its way into our civilization, and the doctrine of the bully and barbarian, that "the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages," f was fast retreatinto the jungles of the beast whence it came. *Only part of the land ceded in the...
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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the West

Theodore Roosevelt - 1903 - 312 pages
...communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of to-day. Most fortunately, the hard, energetic, practical men...lands, are not prone to false sentimentality. The people who are, are the people who stay at home. Often these stay-athomes are too selfish and indolent,...
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The Winning of the West, Volume 4

Theodore Roosevelt - Kentucky - 1905 - 278 pages
...longed-for ground, the men actually in contact with the savages, who in the end shape their own destinies. The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war...though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under...
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The Tippecanoe Battle-field Monument: A History of the Association Formed to ...

Tippecanoe, Battle of, 1811 - 1909 - 168 pages
...tell us of the untcllable cruelties and sorrows, trials and fears of the pioneer. It has been said "The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be the most terrible and inhuman." The rude pioneer settler, who drove the savage from this land has made...
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