Project Gutenberg 2019-02-03 Public domain in the USA. 421 Roosevelt, Theodore 1858 1919 United States President (1901-1909) Roosevelt, Teddy The Strenuous Life The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 12 (of 14) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strenuous_Life The strenuous life -- Expansion and peace -- Latitude and longitude among reformers -- Fellow-feeling as a political factor -- Civic helpfulness -- Character and success -- The eighth and ninth commandments in politics -- The best and the good -- Promise and performance -- The American boy -- Military prepareness and unpreparedness -- Admiral Dewey -- Grant -- The two Americas -- Manhood and statehood -- Brotherhood and the heroic virtues -- National duties -- The labor question -- Christian citizenship. Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt is a collection of speeches and essays written in the late 19th century. The work encourages embracing a vigorous and challenging lifestyle, emphasizing toil, effort, and the overcoming of difficulties as the essence of true success. Roosevelt argues against the pursuit of mere comfort and ease, promoting the idea that greatness, both personal and national, comes from engagement in strenuous endeavors, including war, civic duty, and work for the common good. At the start of the text, Roosevelt passionately addresses the members of the Hamilton Club in Chicago, invoking the American spirit characterized by hard work, courage, and resilience. He underscores the importance of striving for high ideals rather than succumbing to a life of idleness or cowardice. Through historical references, he illustrates that moments of strife and struggle—such as the Civil War—ultimately lead to national greatness and moral rectitude, asserting that a nation or individual that shies away from challenges diminishes their potential and worth. Roosevelt's call to action is not just for personal betterment, but for a collective national responsibility to face hardships head-on and actively engage in the world stage with purpose and integrity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 55.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en United States -- Politics and government United States -- Colonial question E660 Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: American Literature 420555 2025-06-23T11:59:19.570693 text/html 421925 2019-02-03T11:26:48 text/html 320882 2025-06-23T11:59:24.592713 application/epub+zip 325000 2025-06-23T11:59:20.390713 application/epub+zip 236867 2025-06-23T11:59:19.964724 application/epub+zip 437683 2025-06-23T11:59:28.288629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 398091 2025-06-23T11:59:24.176689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 310547 2022-09-26T17:45:45.379977 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 389394 2025-06-23T11:59:19.205691 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 389838 2019-02-03T11:26:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19500 2025-06-23T11:59:28.428644 application/rdf+xml 11405 2025-06-23T11:59:20.061672 image/jpeg 1645 2025-06-23T11:59:20.014667 image/jpeg 143985 2019-02-03T11:26:48 application/octet-stream application/zip 288429 2019-02-03T11:26:48 application/octet-stream application/zip 291779 2025-06-23T11:59:19.618752 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia